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The ability to think on your feet and remain calm are attributes that are a must for anyone with sights on becoming a nurse in the operating room. Perioperative nurses undergo special training for the job. At King Edward VII Memorial Hospital nurses...

Sometimes, bad things happen to good people … they happen to all people. There are those occasions when things just don’t go our way, work out as we hoped or planned. We get bad news or others do or say something we think is unfair or we feel hurt by...

Safety checks, one of the most important functions in the operating room, are carried out by the surgical team. At King Edward VII Memorial Hospital the checks are done in three phases. Just before going to sleep, patients are asked their name, date ...

In a social network counter-salvo of One Bermuda Alliance statements on Thursday that FutureCare will remain intact, the Progressive Labour Party yesterday tweeted “The OBA continues to try and have it both ways on FutureCare” from their voteplp acco...

Are there more children overweight than a decade ago? In Bermuda ‘yes’, would seem to be the answer. Paediatrician Sylvanus Nawab, of Edgewood Paediatric Services, estimates that more than a third of his clients are overweight or obese. “I’m seeing ...

How many people have diabetes? Do you have ten friends on the Island? If so the odds are that at least two of them have diabetes. Healthcare workers in this field believe that as many as a quarter of Bermudians have this condition. The most recent st...