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The French physician FJV Broussais bestrode Parisian medicine at the turn of the 19th century just as the new medicine of the Napoleonic capital, with its vast public hospitals and salaried hospital doctors, dominated scientific medicine then and for many years to come. And what a bleeder he was.
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Year 2000 fears grow
The NHS Executive is still fighting shy of naming trusts and health authorities that are failing to meet year 2000 bug-fixing targets - even though the number of laggards is growing, according to the most recent quarterly returns.
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A member of the Drains Faculty asks, what's so special about being a doctor?
Are public health doctors a waste of money? Readers reply to columnist Alan Maynard
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Joint account
When public sector accountants gathered for their annual conference, they complained of initiative overload. Seamus Ward was there
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Trust ready for millennium accounting
Severn trust is to implement the Geac SmartStream financials system, in a £100,000 contract to make its accounting department Year 2000 ready.
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Activists gatecrash director job interview
Mental health service users claim to have gatecrashed a job interview for the director of a new organisation spearheading partnership with social services.
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Mental health shake-up after violence and drugs incidents
Birmingham health authority has agreed to spend £350,000 reorganising mental health wards at a local psychiatric hospital after incidents of violence and drug- taking by patients.
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No agreement on HR as PCT deadline nears
Managers and trade unions are concerned that agreement will not be reached on key human resources issues affecting primary care trusts by 1 July, when the first applications for PCT status can be made.
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'Hatchet woman' of days gone by is appointed to trust board
One of the most controversial figures from the era of the Conservative NHS reforms has staged a surprise comeback by winning a seat on a trust board.