The value of keeping proper written records of explanations, discussions and advice leading to the informed consent to avoid protracted legal proceedings for both doctors and patients was highlighted in the Supreme Court of Appeal judgement in the case of Beukes v Smith. The introduction to the ethical guidelines published by the Health Professions Council..
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The Health Professions Council of South Africa says you need to know about INFORMED CONSENT: The costly legal implications if it’s not done right
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One of the top medical aids in South Africa, Discovery Health, say they are unable to pay for dad’s life-saving cancer medication
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Medical aid giant Discovery Health says it is unable to pay for cancer medication a Hermanus father needs to save his life. And it won’t let the client of 14 years upgrade to qualify for the expensive drugs. His family has requested that his name be withheld. His youngest daughter said she felt Discovery was..
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South Africa’s medical schemes in good health, both open and restricted, according to Alexander Forbes
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South Africa’s largest medical schemes – both open and restricted – are in good shape and have sufficient reserves to pay members’ claims, according to Alexander Forbes Health’s latest edition of Diagnosis, an annual publication that analyses key trends in the medical schemes industry from 2000 to 2017. The insights were drawn from the Alexander..
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Most people ask Dr Google but be cautious here are the pros and cons of online diagnosis
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Pop symptoms of a headache into a search engine and it will come back with a myriad of diagnoses, varying from a sinus headache to a tumour. Dr Google has become the source of choice for self-diagnosis, a second opinion or to find out more about a diagnosed condition. While many healthcare practitioners caution very..
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Medical Technology News South Africa:- Introducing the e-patient
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Almost half the South African population has access to the internet, including 8-million Twitter users and 16-million Facebook users. This digital revolution has unlocked enormous opportunities for the creation of online communities for large-scale engagement around often complex topics like the management of health conditions. Enter the e-patient. A term describing individuals who are proactive..
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South African Paramedics fear for their lives as attacks on EMS crews continue
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Attacks on emergency medical services staff in the Western Cape continue with two teams of paramedics targetted attacked in separate incidents in the space of a week. On Wednesday a team of paramedics was held at gunpoint while responding to an emergency in Khayelitsha and on Saturday another group was attacked, also at gunpoint, robbed..
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Mother disappears and left her disabled kids to starve and live in their own filth
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The mother of this disabled 16-year-old girl and her eight-year-old brother is being sought by authorities after the children were found abandoned in a hokkie. The kids were sitting in their own excrement and did not have any food when members of the local neighbourhood watch found them in their Wendy house in Leiden, Delft,..
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Here are 12 things to know about people with hidden depression
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Not everyone knows how to express the emotions that burden their hearts and the pain that grips their soul. Depression is one of the most intense mental conditions listed as a disorder in modern medicine. It doesn’t merely affect one aspect of a human being’s life, but it takes over everything and seeks to consume…
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The Rahima Moosa hospital in talks with Eskom about possible exemption from load shedding
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In the midst of rolling blackouts throughout South Africa Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital in Coronationville, Johannesburg, says it is in talks with City Power and power utility Eskom to have its own load shedding schedule and be exempted from that of its surrounding area. This was told to DA leader Mmusi Maimane by..
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BREAKING NEWS:- Tramadol: The Drug Claiming More Lives Than Any Painkiller
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Painkiller Tramadol has killed more people than heroin and cocaine. Imagine a prescription medication that relieves pain just as well as narcotics like Oxycontin, but isn’t addictive. Too good to be true? Turns out, yes. For years, that was the case with Tramadol, a synthetic opioid drug that was released in 1995 under the brand..
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