Archive for October, 2007

Training in occupational medicine

Recently, as I was reading Joseph LaDou’s book titled “Current occupational and environmental medicine”, I was struck by the similarities between the situation in the US described and the situation of occupational medicine practice in Romania.
In absence of laws to the contrary, industry continues to hire the most compliant and the most cost-effective health care […]

Importance of prevention

During the years following the graduation of the medical school, I noticed that there is something very particular with the kind of medicine we’re practicing. Hypertension cannot be cured, but only controlled under medication; it’s the same with diabetes, asthma, and most other diseases, this is the limit of medical knowledge. In general, drugs used […]