Stress Effects

GP wins against GMC for releasing fitness-to-practise report to a patient

The High Court has actually ruled that the GMC was wrong to decide to disclose a complete report concerning a GP’s physical fitness to practice to a patient who wanted to file a medical negligence claim.

In the recent case, a GP – referred to as Dr DB – went through a fitness-to-practice investigation after a patient […]

By |October 26th, 2016|GMC, Legal, Stress Effects|0 Comments

GMC Investigation and Suicide

28 Doctors Killed Themselves While Under Investigation By GMC
Original Article in Huffinton Post

An independent guide has actually found that 28 medical professionals eliminated themselves while under examination for malpractice between 2005 and 2013.

The General Medical Council commissioned guide out today discovered the doctors, who killed themselves or died of suspected suicide, were suffering from mental […]

By |December 21st, 2014|GMC, Staff Support, Stress Effects|0 Comments

Dissecting melancholia with evidence-based biomarker tools

Current Psychiatry 2014 February;13(2):41-48, 57.

Insight into the neuroanatomical pathophysiology of depression may shed light on the future of managing this disease.

Murali Rao, MD
Professor and Chair
Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois

Julie M. Alderson, DO
Resident
East Liverpool City Hospital
East Liverpool, Ohio

For more than 50 years, depression has been studied, and understood, as a […]

By |November 27th, 2014|Stress Effects|0 Comments