Health care spending in Estonia is significantly lower than the average in the OECD countries, writes LETA/Postimees Online. Estonia only spends 6.3% of its GDP on health care costs while the average among OECD members states is 9.5%, is revealed by the organisation’s 2012 health care sector overview. Only Mexico and Turkey spent proportionately less…
Berlin – “Surgery consists of more than just the pure surgical act†, this statement was pointed out by the German Society of Surgery, prior to a joint session noted with different sub-affiliates in August. “A well performed surgery is not composed by only the professionally executed operation, rather it is the result of…
Berlin – The vast majority of doctors are satisfied with their work. This is what the result from the medical monitor of Statutory Health Insurance National Physicians Association (KBV) and NAV-Virchow-Bund presented in Berlin. 98% of the 11.000 physicians interviewed by telephone consider their work useful and meaningful, 93% are making their work fun and…
Ulm – About declining numbers of graduates in Gastroenterology reports the Association of Established Gastroenterologists. “The long training period, the intensive professional need and the risk of establishment apparently scares the young doctorsâ€, said the chairman of the association, Huppe Dietrich, as a result of the analysis that was conducted in 14 states in…