Doctors with disabilities: licensed to practice?

Doctors deal with patient's disabilities every day but many in the profession have been nonplussed to see the focus of the disability rights lobbies shift from the recipients of care to the carers themselves. Until recently the number of practising doctors known to have significant disabilities was very low and for many reasons potential medical students were deterred from entering medical education. This piece would not even have been commissioned 14 years ago when the U.

Health of the working age population.

New report recommends integration of occupational health into mainstream health care

Morbidity in expatriates--a prospective cohort study.

Background: Expatriates comprise an important, but rarely studied subset of international travellers. This study was performed to assess the incidence of health events in an expatriate group and to evaluate factors affecting this incidence.

Methods: A cohort of 2020 Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) staff and partners living abroad were followed-up over 1 year.

Setting national targets to improve occupational health.

This paper describes a national strategy to improve occupational health and a longitudinal view of a 15 year project undertaken in the UK, logging the key developments. The first results should become apparent in 2005. Progress will be reported.