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Note: This is a true incident. Though all characters in the story are anonymized, they are recognizable to the knowledgeable based on the events portrayed. That they have been anonymized reflects propriety rather than conformity to any hidebound traditions.
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John Deer and Jane Doe are part of a small team of medical personnel doing voluntary work [...]

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via Paul Levy’s blog post…
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Here’s a great fellowship opportunity in biomedical imaging being offered by the Madrid-MIT M+Visión Consortium program. Applications are welcome from people of all nations, and with a variety of backgrounds. Here is an excerpt from the description:
With a focus on accelerating innovation in biomedical imaging, promoting translational research, and encouraging entrepreneurship, [...]

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Shamelessly copied verbatim from this post by Chris Nickson of the LITFL team.
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The ‘Ten Commandments of Emergency Radiology’ according to Touquet et al (1995):

Treat the patient, not the radiograph
Take a history and examination before ordering a radiograph
Request a radiograph only when necessary
Never look at a radiograph without seeing the patient, and never see a patient [...]

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Three news articles in the first two days of the new decade indicate that the Medical Council of India is contemplating a major overhaul of medical education in India
Beginning with undergraduate medical education (MBBS).
The Hindu: MCI suggests major reforms in undergraduate course [my comments in bold italics in parentheses]

The MCI has recommended major reforms in [...]

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From the transcript of a video by Dr. Mark G. Kris, MD, Chief, Thoracic Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, published in MedscapeRadiology [Registration required. Free] speaking on the recent announcement by the National Cancer Institute about the release of data from the National Lung Screening Trial [Abstract & link below].

…we have never had a screening [...]

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H/T this retweet by my friend Ramona.
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From the The Local:

Berlin’s Charité Hospital has achieved a world-first by creating MRI images of a baby being born in order to provide extraordinary insights into the birthing process. A team comprised of obstetricians, radiologists and engineers have built an “open” MRI scanner that allows a mother-to-be to fit [...]

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via DNA - Centre cracks the whip on Indian Medical Association for endorsing products.
Sending a strong signal to doctors endorsing products for private companies, Medical Council of India (MCI) has banned top office-bearers of Indian Medical Association (IMA) from practising medicine for six months. IMA’s national president Goparaju Samaram and secretary Dharam Prakash have been removed from [...]

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I got an email from Mari (M4ID_Mari in twitter) on behalf of the WHO’s Emergencies and Humanitarian Action team in South East Asia, based in New Delhi about the WHO’s first social media driven effort, aiming to engage 1 million people in the issue of hospitals safe in disasters.
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Floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, cyclones - the WHO [...]