Tag: Doctors

New BMA chief: medicine should not be preserve of elite

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - September 1, 2014

THE new leader of Scotland’s doctors has said that medicine should not be the preserve of the “privileged few”. Dr Peter Bennie said it was...

Marketers Brought in to Cure Highland Doctor Crisis

Health

Guest - August 26, 2014

MARKETING consultants from the Channel Islands have been hired in a bid to solve the GP recruitment crisis in the Highlands. The team will be...

Revolutionary stem cell treatment could help blind patients see

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - May 21, 2012

DOCTORS in Scotland have performed revolutionary stem cell surgery which could help blind patients see for the first time. The surgery is part of a...

Amount of Scottish drug addicts on methadone is a ‘time bomb waiting to go off’

Scottish News

Christine Lavelle - December 5, 2010

DRUG addicts in Scotland are more likely than their English counterparts to receive the heroin substitute methadone, with doctors prescribing double the amount north...

Carer hit an elderly patient because she thought he was lunging at her

Deadline News Journalist - September 22, 2010

By Cara Sulieman A CARER hit an elderly nursing home resident under her care because she thought he was lunging at her. Valerie Stone, 49, told...

Car salesmen have the least respected profession in Scotland

Christine Lavelle - August 16, 2010

By Christine Lavelle CAR salesmen have been revealed as having the least respected profession in Scotland, sharing the bottom spot with bankers in a recent...

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