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Mental Health: "Depression emerges as the pill's downside"
This article from the Sydney Morning Herald, March 1 2005, discusses the outcomes of a study which shows that "Women taking the pill are almost twice as likely to have depression as those not taking ...
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Pushing the Boat Out [ pdf: 843 KB ]
An Introductory Study of Admissions to the UK Medical, Dental and Veterinary Schools for Applicants with Disabilities
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Colour Blind: Deficient colour vision & interpretation of histopathology slides
An article by C J M Poole, consultant occupational physician, D J Hill, optometrist, J L Christie, consultant histopathologist, J Birch, senior lecturer. The article (November 1997) reports on a stud...
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Electronic Tool Kit of Training Resources for Medical, Dental, and Nursing Students working with patients with disabilities
This is a comprehensive Electronic Tool Kit of pre-service curricular materials, directed to the needs of patients with disabilities, for use by medical, nursing and dental schools. Produced In respon...
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Students In Mind (UK)
The main aim of Students in Mind is to provide Advice, Advocacy and Empowerment for students who have or are experiencing varying degrees of mental distress. They provide information to students in Fu...
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Life as a visually impaired doctor
Rhianwen Elen Stiff shares her experiences and gives some practical advice to doctors with visual impairments.
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Colour Blind: "Doctors with Daltonism and the Implications for Counselling"
This article by J Anthony and B Spalding, gives the results of a questionnaire study of 40 doctors with this deficiency of whom 35 were GPs. It is designed to show the range of difficulties they notic...
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Colour Blind: "Confessions of Colour Blind Physician"
Published in the Journal of Optometrists: Clinical and Experimental Optometry, November 2003. The author describes his experiences due to his inherited colour vision deficiency, as a child, as studen...
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Association of Medical Professionals with hearing loss (AMPHL)
AMPHL (US) provides information, promotes advocacy and mentorship, and creates a network for individuals with hearing loss interested in or working in health care fields