An hour-long protest by Black Lives Matter advocates pressed council business back previous 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, once business was taken up, the council rapidly approved putting a petition-driven proposition to allow medical cannabis dispensaries onto the November general election tally. Last February, the council cannot enact any regulation for dispensaries, leaving an overall ban in location. Medical cannabis advocates reacted rapidly with a tally initiative that would allow a marijuana dispensary for every 18,000 individuals in Long Beach, together with a series of regulations. The petition also restricts taxes to 6%. Led by Bob Kelton, the group collected more than 35,000 signatures of signed up Long Beach voters to put the item on the ballot. Last week, City Clerk Maria de la Luz Garcia ruled that …
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A top eye specialist revered as ‘the guy with the magic fingers’ is facing a medical tribunal over a secret affair he had with a male client. John Brookes was renowned for his many mercy objectives to India where he saved the sight of children struggling with glaucoma whilst based on board an aircraft doubling up as a mobile eye health center. But back in Britain, the consultant and his same-sex partner were leading separate lives and he satisfied up socially with the client who had actually read social networks blog sites about his voluntary medical journeys. The pair then embarked on a 15-month relationship before Mr Brookes, a specialist ophthalmic surgeon at London’s Moorfields Eye Medical facility, decided they should remain pals. He later referred himself to the General Medical Council when his unnamed enthusiast, refe …
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New Chair sought for physician tribunal service The General Medical Council(GMC)is recruiting for a new Chair of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS). The present Chair, His Honour David Pearl, is stepping down next year after 5 years in the role, and the GMC will select a new prospect who will use up the role in early 2017. The MPTS was established in 2012 in the most significant shake-up of physical fitness to practice hearings since the GMC was first developed in 1858. It plays a vital function in the security of clients by making independent choices about a medical professional’s fitness to practise, measured against expert standards set by the GMC. The MPTS is operationally separate from the GMC but is accountable both to Parliament and the Council of the GMC for shipment of its goals. Under David Pearl’s leadership the MPTS …
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GMC to revamp medical register Printer-friendly version MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS’ images and more detailed information about their present task might be included in the online medical register under new proposals from the General Medical Council. A consultation has been introduced into plans to modernise the publicly-available register which has stayed largely the same since it was produced more than 150 years ago. It presently notes every physician who is certified to practice in the UK and was searched almost seven million times last year. It includes each medical professional’s name, GMC referral number, gender, year of certification, whether they are on the expert register and their registration status. But the GMC think the register states little about a medical professional’s actual practice and often includes out-of-date info. They are seek advice from …
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