Grey Power November 2015
The Grey Power Magazine is a prime national news source for its readers – New Zealand men and women over 50. Circulated quarterly to more than 68,000 members, Grey Power Magazine reports on the policies of the Grey Power Federation, and the concerns of the elderly, backgrounding and interpreting official decisions which affect their lives.
The Grey Power Magazine is a prime national news source for its readers – New Zealand men and women over 50. Circulated quarterly to more than 68,000 members, Grey Power Magazine reports on the policies of the Grey Power Federation, and the concerns of the elderly, backgrounding and interpreting official decisions which affect their lives.
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NATIONAL GREYPOWER MAGAZINE » NOVEMBER <strong>2015</strong><br />
“To serve our patients”<br />
From Dr Stephen Child, chair, New Zealand Medical Association<br />
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Following the atrocities and medical<br />
experimenting of WWII, the World<br />
Medical Association combined to<br />
reaffirm and modernise the original<br />
Hippocratic Oath.<br />
The subsequent<br />
statement is known<br />
as the Declaration<br />
of Geneva and has been<br />
updated regularly by<br />
subsequent WMA meetings.<br />
This document is the<br />
MOH prostate cancer management<br />
From page 3<br />
best, latest information<br />
about prostate cancer.<br />
And when prostate<br />
cancer is just one of<br />
the many things a general<br />
practitioner needs<br />
to know about, the new<br />
guidance will give doctors<br />
most of what they<br />
need to know when consulted<br />
by men about<br />
prostate health.<br />
In particular, this<br />
guidance will help them<br />
to identify the men who<br />
should be tested, and<br />
how to interpret the test<br />
results and what to do if<br />
modern template for the<br />
medical profession, and<br />
begins:<br />
“I pledge to consecrate<br />
my life to the services of<br />
humanity”. This means<br />
the core of our professionalism<br />
is to “serve our<br />
further advice or treatment<br />
is indicated.<br />
Failure by health professionals<br />
to be up-to-date<br />
and to act on available<br />
guidance can have literally<br />
fatal consequences when<br />
a man’s prostate cancer is<br />
not detected early enough<br />
or is not treated properly.<br />
The new <strong>2015</strong> Prostate<br />
Cancer Management and<br />
Referral Guidance should<br />
not be seen as an end in<br />
itself.<br />
It needs to be understood<br />
and implemented<br />
by general practitioners<br />
and health professionals<br />
patients”.<br />
What does this mean<br />
today? Has it changed<br />
over time? Do we still<br />
serve?<br />
Indeed the whole concept<br />
of service seems to<br />
have changed somewhat<br />
over the generations.<br />
WWII veterans signed a<br />
conscription form that offered<br />
their lives to “King<br />
and Country’. Sacrificing<br />
oneself for others was<br />
seen by society then as a<br />
virtue to a greater extent<br />
Continued on page 10<br />
all around the country.<br />
That may require some<br />
retraining and further<br />
professional development,<br />
and may also require<br />
some doctors to<br />
re-examine their understanding<br />
of prostate cancer<br />
issues.<br />
The Prostate Cancer<br />
Foundation is committed<br />
to providing awareness<br />
campaigns and information<br />
and also providing<br />
support to men, and their<br />
families, who are living<br />
with a diagnosis and<br />
treatment of prostate cancer
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