Din Maarij, 60, struck a patient in an instinctive action after she attacked him unprovoked from behind in May 2018
A surgeon who slapped a female patient across the face after she attacked him on a busy hospital corridor has been cleared by a disciplinary panel.
Dr Mohammad Din Maarij, 60, was spared career ruin Tuesday after successfully arguing he had struck the woman in a reflex manoeuvre to defend himself.
The unnamed patient had attacked Dr Maarij unprovoked and from behind in the A&E unit, hitting him up to three times on the head.
After striking the patient during the confrontation, the doctor lost his job as a surgical assessment registrar at the Princess Royal University Hospital in Locksbottom, Kent following an internal inquiry.
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Researchers at King s College London Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience, in collaboration with King s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, have found small clusters of cells in the brain that identify locations where tumours could become malignant.
The study, which has been published in
Neuro-Oncology Advances today, analysed pieces of living human brain tissue from 20 people undergoing brain tumour surgery at King s College Hospital, the largest neuro-oncology centre in Europe. The researchers found groups of tumour cells clustered around blood vessels and believe that these sites could be the seedbeds for malignant progression, the process by which a tumour becomes a fast growing and uncontrolled cancer.
More than half of cancer patients may not be protected against coronavirus after a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine, an alarming study has claimed.
Research of more than 150 patients found the jab stimulated an antibody response in just 39 per cent of people with solid cancers, such as in the breast or prostate, after three weeks.
The single dose was even less effective in blood and bone marrow cancer patients, with just 13 per cent developing the virus-fighting proteins, compared to 97 per cent of healthy people.
The King s College London study found that when patients were given the booster dose at 21 days, the percentage who showed signs of immunity more than doubled to up to 95 per cent.
We swore an oath: “Primum non nocere” First, do no harm. When pandemic stress began to bear down on our hospitals, we scrambled to manage the burden of volume and simultaneously mitigate the threat of contagion. In our war efforts, we donned our hazmat suits, and pleaded with everyone to do their part. We stopped most elective procedures and shut our doors to visitors, families, even volunteers. What we couldn’t avoid was the ill-consequence of these actions. Our patients would suffer more than they should, and our staff would bear an unmeasurable burden. The best we could manage was to try and do less harm.
Two friends from Eltham have this week donated food and essentials to the value of £1,000 to Bromley Borough Foodbank. Louise Houghton-Campion and Kasey Cowley, both 22, raised the money by selling raffle tickets to friends and family. “We realised that donations to the foodbank would be down due to Covid so we wanted to do our bit to help,” said Louise. The friends first met at Bullers Wood School in Chislehurst. Louise is now a trainee accountant and Kasey works for a City law firm. On top of full-time jobs, they volunteer together at a foodbank in Mottingham every Saturday, making deliveries to people’s homes. This motivated them to start their own fundraising initiative in support of vulnerable members of the community.