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Tag: Neglect
30 years after Morgentaler ruling, future doctors say medical schools neglect abortion training
A recent study concludes that Canadian family medicine training programs provide little education about abortion, with 57% of family medicine residents having no formal training on the procedure.
Furious Brazilians are blaming neglect and budget cuts for the fire that destroyed the 200-year-old National Museum
Buda Mendes/Getty Images A massive fire at Brazil’s National Museum, which housed over 20 million rare and ancient artifacts, has been blamed on years of neglect and budget cuts that left it in a vulnerable state. The cause of the fire is still not yet known, though officials have said the blaze was a “tragedy” […]
Madagascar Spirals Toward a Fresh Crisis After Years of Neglect
Madagascar’s presidential palace, built on a grandiose scale by North Korea, sits on manicured grounds about 15 kilometers outside Antananarivo. Its splendid isolation from the capital — let alone the poverty of Madagascar — is a fitting symbol of a state whose influence is scant. Inside the palace’s vast hallways and cavernous meeting rooms, President […]
Doctors say government neglect, mismanagement to blame for sorry state of health care
A group that advocates for Ontario doctors says the provincial government has created a crisis in health care through years of neglect and mismanagement.
‘It’s disgusting’: Senior’s severe injuries result of nursing home neglect, says daughter
The daughter of a 95-year old woman who was found bloodied and bruised in a nursing home room says her mother’s wounds are unacceptable.
Pediatricians are debating whether refusing to vaccinate a child can be construed as ‘medical neglect’
Loren Kerns on Flickr In May, Minnesota reached an unfortunate milestone: The state had seen more measles cases in the first five months of 2017 than the entire country had experienced in all of 2016. The number of cases was, at recent count, 79. Most of those diagnosed with measles have been children, and more […]
Mom accused of possible ‘oral neglect’ by dentist checking her daughter gets reported to children’s aid
Melissa Lopez is questioning why a dentist would be allowed to report a parent without knowing all the facts, and why she now has a permanent file with the Children’s Aid Society — even though she provided them with evidence of her daughter’s dental work and was told they had quickly closed the case. CBC […]
Victims from the 2015 San Bernardino shooting are suing tech companies for neglect
Reuters/Mike Blake Surviving relatives of three people killed in the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, are taking Facebook, Twitter, and Google to court, alleging they failed to clamp down on terrorist propaganda on their sites. According to court documents cited by KABC-TV, the lawsuit alleges that the companies allowed people who sympathized with […]
POTHOLE WARNING: Crumbling roads left looking like 'SWISS CHEESE' after years of neglect
New research discovered that a staggering one in six (17per cent) are now in poor condition and in need of urgent work. The dire state of so many routes has been caused by an ageing network, decades of underfunding, increased traffic and wetter winters, the report by the Ashphalt Industry Alliance found. But researchers also […]
