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Jacky Davis
Dr Jacky Davis has been a consultant radiologist at Whittington Hospital London since 1981 with special interests in paediatrics, ultrasound and breast imaging. She is a member of the British Medical Association council, and is a founder member of the national campaign Keep Our NHS Public. She is a campaigner for assisted dying, is on the board of Dignity in Dying and chairs Healthcare Professionals for Assisted Dying. She was called as a witness by the House of Commons Health Committee enquiry into Top–up fees in the NHS in January 2009. She was very active in the campaign against the Health and Social Care Act 2012. In particular she was vocal in the campaign against the BBC for failing, she claimed, to give sufficient exposure to the threat to the NHS. She co-edited and co-authored with Raymond Tallis the 2013 book ''NHS SOS: How the NHS Was Betrayed and How We Can Save It'', the only description to date of the passage of Andrew Lansley's infamous Health and Social Care Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radiologist
Radiology ( ) is the medical discipline that uses medical imaging to diagnose diseases and guide their treatment, within the bodies of humans and other animals. It began with radiography (which is why its name has a root referring to radiation), but today it includes all imaging modalities, including those that use no electromagnetic radiation (such as ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging), as well as others that do, such as computed tomography (CT), fluoroscopy, and nuclear medicine including positron emission tomography (PET). Interventional radiology is the performance of usually minimally invasive medical procedures with the guidance of imaging technologies such as those mentioned above. The modern practice of radiology involves several different healthcare professions working as a team. The radiologist is a medical doctor who has completed the appropriate post-graduate training and interprets medical images, communicates these findings to other physicians by m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
