50 percent of women doctors and nurses in the Kingdom tend to be single.

50 percent of women doctors and nurses in the Kingdom tend to be single.

According to a social specialist, 50 percent of women doctors and nurses in the Kingdom tend to be single.

Arab News qualitatively surveyed this phenomenon and found that many young men prefer not to marry doctors and nurses for a number of reasons. Perhaps the primary concern is to do with the fact that hospitals operate in mixed-gender environments and during extremely unsociable working hours.

“Unfortunately, people still continue to look down on women doctors. Men tend not to want to marry doctors. Moreover, some families threaten to ostracize their sons if they marry doctors or nurses,” said Aisha, who is a doctor at a local hospital.

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Debate on Nursing Profession - Saudi Arabia

"that Saudi nurses constitute only five percent of the total 70,000 nurses in the Kingdom."

DAMMAM, 20 October 2007 — Following a recent episode about Saudi nurses on the popular Ramadan comedy series Tash Ma Tash, a number of nurses spoke to Al-Madinah newspaper about the social stigma they face working as nurses and the type of opposition they face from their families.

Some Saudi nurses say that following the episode, which satirically took a look at the profession, opposition has increased. Exasperated by the situation, they are now calling on wider society to change its perception.

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Enhanced Wound Care Through I.T.

A very good example of utilizing Information Technology to develop a time-saving patient care application. Having noted the shortage of Nurses who are specializing in wound care, Partners HealthCare in Boston developed an IT strategy that connects the patient with the Nurse Specialist using cellphones, laptop and the Internet. The result is high value, very useful applications that helped in providing a very effective, time saving patient care.

"This is a great example of a specific way telemedicine technology can add value to the practice of medicine," says Joseph C. Kvedar, M.D., director at Partners Telemedicine and a dermatologist."

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7,000 people die and at least 1.5 million are harmed

At least 7,000 people died every year due to problems related to written prescriptions according to the advocates of National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative. This was revealed in a news conference recently.

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"In the 21st century, the legibility of a doctor's handwriting should not determine whether a patient lives or dies," said Gingrich, who founded the advocacy group Center for Health Transformation.

"Yet the paper prescription system has remained essentially unchanged for 200 years. There is simply no excuse for medical errors when they are caused by an antiquated system that can easily be modernized and replaced," Gingrich added.

Dr. Nancy Dickey, former president of the American Medical Association, called electronic prescribing a way to improve patient safety.

"You would think if you were a pharmacist and you couldn't clearly read what I (as a doctor) had written, that you would simply pick up the phone and call. But it's astonishing how often they make their best guess," said Dickey, president of the Texas A&M University Health Science Center.

About a fifth of U.S. doctors currently prescribe drugs electronically, with the rest using pen and paper.

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