Leading Physicians To Meet Next Month In Bangkok

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WORLD MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS

Leading physicians to meet next month in Bangkok

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Physicians from international national medical associations will gather in Bangkok from October 10-13 for the World Medical Association's annual general assembly.

More than 300 delegates are expected to debate policy issues affecting doctors, including violence by patients, organ donation and procurement, sale of electronic cigarettes, ethics of physicians and capital punishment, and the protection of health personnel in armed conflict.

The health problems facing four of the world's busiest cities will be examined during the scientific session on "Mega Cities."

Noted speakers from Bangkok, Chicago, Tokyo and Sao Paulo will address the conference on the measures being taken in these cities to develop healthier lives for their citizens.

Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra will talk about Bangkok's plans to become a healthier city.

Dr Bechara Choucair, commissioner of the Chicago Public Health Department, will talk about the "Healthy Chicago" agenda, the first citywide comprehensive public health agenda in the United States. It calls for all Chicagoans to work together on making Chicago the healthiest city in the US.

Yasuhide Nakamura, professor of international collaboration at Osaka University's department of global human sciences, will speak about Tokyo. The metropolis has a population of 13 million and Greater Tokyo, the biggest urban conglomeration in the world, has a total population of 36 million.

Finally Dr Jose Bonamigo, an internist and haematologist at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo, Brazil, will talk about plans for improving the health of Sao Paulo's population.

Among the key WMA policy decisions to be discussed at the fourday assembly will be on how healthcare institutions should tackle the growing problem of violence and aggressive behaviour towards healthcare staff by patients and their relatives and the risks facing smokers from the use of new electronic cigarettes.

Another topic is the revised guidance to physicians that they should play no role in capital punishment.

The meeting will also debate advice to physicians who become involved in caring for people caught up in armed conflict and a new ethical guidance on the donation and procurement of organs.

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-- The Nation 2012-09-26

[jerrysteve]

I will have to have some medical doctor cards printed up so I can attend...Sounds like an interesting session!

[Thai at Heart]

Risks from electronic cigarettes. Massive issue??

A yes, its untaxed now that is a very serious problem.

[Beng]

Let's hope it will have a positive impact on the current situation.

[asiawatcher]

Seems Dr's handling issues on capital punishment, electronic cigarettes, and delving into violence against them is a tall order. But it will have an outcome one way or the other.

[MEL1]

How about the abuse of 'nurses' being on the agenda, those who do the mainstay of the work, and not the Doctors?

-mel.