Here's an interesting story from The Japan Times:
Blind quadriplegic certified as M.D.
A 27-year-old man became the first blind quadriplegic in Japan to receive a medical doctor's license in line with revisions to a restrictive law, officials of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said.
The awarding of the license on Thursday follows the government's revision in 2001 of the Medical Practitioners Law, when it abolished clauses stipulating that people who have trouble seeing, hearing or speaking cannot become doctors, dentists or pharmacists.
"I want to offer my support to the disabled and people with incurable illnesses," the doctor, who asked not to be named, was quoted as saying.
The officials said a disease left him blind and unable to use his limbs when he was a university student.
After a temporary break from university, he began his studies and in March took the national exam for medical practitioners, in which he had the questions read out to him and was given extra time to complete them.
Four experts and ministry officials interviewed him and assessed his qualifications and level of disability, before declaring him fit to receive a medical license.
AMA/CMA/BMA International Conference on Physician Health 2010
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Physician Health and Resiliency in the 21st Century
Oct. 3-5, 2010
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Physician Health and Resiliency in the 21st Century
Oct. 3-5, 2010
Chicago, Ill.
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Disability Income Insurance: What Every Physician Needs to Know
There's a great article titled, "Disability Income Insurance: What Every Physician Needs to Know." Here are some sobering statistics:
According to a recent Gallup study conducted for the UNUM corporation — although most people believe they have only a 16% chance of becoming disabled during their working years — the startling reality is that:
* If you’re under age 35, chances are one in three that you will be disabled for at least six months during the course of your career.
* Men have a 43% chance of becoming seriously disabled during their working years.2 Women have a 54% chance.
* At age 42, it is four times more likely that you will become seriously disabled than that you will die during your working years.
Click here to read the article by Reed Tinsley, CPA.
According to a recent Gallup study conducted for the UNUM corporation — although most people believe they have only a 16% chance of becoming disabled during their working years — the startling reality is that:
* If you’re under age 35, chances are one in three that you will be disabled for at least six months during the course of your career.
* Men have a 43% chance of becoming seriously disabled during their working years.2 Women have a 54% chance.
* At age 42, it is four times more likely that you will become seriously disabled than that you will die during your working years.
Click here to read the article by Reed Tinsley, CPA.
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