#Best Family Medicine Specialist in Bahrain

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Dr. Aysha Waleed Ebrahim |Royal Bahrain Hospital

Family Medicine Specialist

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UAE is the most popular destination for medical tourists seeking fertility treatments in the region says Top Fertility Clinic, IVI Middle East Fertility Clinic

1 out of every 10 patients in the UAE is a medical tourist

More and more medical tourists from around the world are flocking to the UAE for fertility treatments, particularly for In-vitro Fertilisation (IVF) as reported by top fertility clinic in UAE, IVI Middle East Fertility Clinic. Medical tourists from across the GCC, East and North Africa, the Indian subcontinent and Asia prefer to travel to the UAE for world-class quality fertility treatments, ease of accessibility and competitive affordability offered by the country.

Why is UAE attracting Medical Tourism? Does Family Balancing play a part?

In addition, most fertility clinics in the UAE and the best infertility centers like IVI Fertility, offer patients the facility to tests for overall chromosomal normalcy in embryos, which detects if there are any genetic diseases running in the family. The UAE also allows couples to opt for the gender of their choice as part of Family Balancing to achieve a balanced representation of both genders in the family. The US and the UAE are the only two countries where this is legal and is one of the prime reasons attracting medical tourists to the country.

In addition to the GCC and South Asian countries, IVI Middle East Fertility Clinic also has patients from India, Africa, Saudi, Oman, Lebanon, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bahrain and several other countries in the world. 1 out of every 10 patients at the clinic is a medical tourist.

"The field of reproductive medicine is a very young field as compared to other fields of medicine. Over the past three decades, we have gained significant scientific knowledge and experience, improving the chances for couples to become parents. In addition, our clinical research, has helped translate our knowledge into practice, making us the leaders in our field," said Prof. Dr Human Fatemi, Sub specialist Reproductive Medicine & Reproductive Surgery and the Medical Director, IVI Middle East Fertility Clinic.

IVI follows stringent regulations and standards bench marked against the highest standards in the world to offer patients quality healthcare. As a healthcare unit, with an excellent team of over 1,000 doctors, IVI delivers a success rate of over 71 per cent, which is in line with the UAE's healthcare's pursuit of providing a seamless end-to-end healthcare experience to healthcare travellers. To encourage and develop the medical tourism market in the country, IVI also offers patients skype consultation, coordinates the stimulation process in their home country and also arranges for medical visas, hotel accommodation and conveyance.

It has been observed that most medical tourists opt to travel to the UAE for fertility treatments given the shorter travel time, affordable cost of the treatment and high success rates. The global growth of medical and health tourism industry is estimated to grow by 15 to 20 percent per year, and by 2025, according to estimates by Business Insider, it should amount to over 120 billion dollars.

Read More: IVF hospital Dubai

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Manzil Healthcare Services revolutionizes its Healthcare…..

Manzil Healthcare Services revolutionizes its Healthcare services by launching  secure video connected home health facilities with a global partner

Dubai, UAE - 17 October 2018: Manzil Healthcare Services, the leading homecare medical service provider in the UAE, in collaboration with Spectator Video Technology, introduces technologically-advanced Healthcare services at GITEX 2018 - one of the biggest technology shows in the region, held from 14th to 18th October 2018 at Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai.

Manzil is the first company in the Middle East region, to enhance its Healthcare services with Spectator’s state-of-the-art eHealth, mobile Care and Tele-medicine platform for remote Primary Care, Chronic Care and Elderly Care services.

Spectator Middle East, the regional arm of Spectator Video Technology - Netherlands, is the only exhibitor showcasing its innovative remote and integrated Healthcare solutions in one secure platform, including a range  of video and other data communication technologies via mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. Spectator has been providing platform-based video communication technology for remote care solutions since 2004.

The first phase of Spectator technology adoption by Manzil will include introduction of remote eHealth and Tele-medicine services for Chronic Care and Elderly Care services, and video consultation to patients as part of Disease Management, Assala program and Home Care services. This will be followed by advanced ambulance services, based on Personal Medical Alarm Systems with Fall Detection feature.

The second phase technology adoption will be focused on introducing remote 24/7 Primary Care services for patients across UAE.

Commenting on the announcement, Dr. Sarper Tanli, Group CEO of Manzil Healthcare Services said: “As the Healthcare sector in the region transforming, we are happy to take such a remarkable leap in the Healthcare technology solution with Spectator Video Technology. GITEX is a great platform to announce our partnership with Spectator and emphasise on our commitment of providing superior technologically advanced Healthcare services to the people of UAE.”

Dr. Frans Hermes, Managing Director at Spectator Video Technology said: “We are delighted to be associated with Manzil Healthcare Services, one of the leading providers of homecare services in the UAE. Through this collaboration, we are looking forward to support Manzil Healthcare Services by providing sustainable Healthcare technology and solutions to improve Quality-of-Life and Healthcare access to all persons.”

Manzil Healthcare Services, by adopting these cutting-edge call centre based remote medical services from Spectator Video Technology, is expecting to increase its market share to at least 20% by the end of next year.

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About Manzil Healthcare Services

Manzil Healthcare Services is an internationally-accredited healthcare provider majority-owned by specialist private equity firm TVM Capital Healthcare. Based in Abu Dhabi, with branches in Al Ain, Dubai, Ras Al Khaimah, as well as other regional offices in 6 cities, Manzil, is a long-term care and disease management company founded to provide specialist homecare for adult and paediatric patients who need regular medical attention, allowing them to benefit from personalized care while surrounded by family. Established in 2011 by Emirati physician Dr. Ghuwaya Al Neyadi as one of the first homecare companies in the region, Manzil is now the largest standalone homecare provider in the UAE. New regional entities were launched in early 2016, as well as an additional branch opened in KSA in 2017. Manzil’s 400 nurses, therapists, and physicians provide regular GP, physiotherapy, medical infusion and ventilation services with tele-monitoring, as well as specialized care for infant, geriatric,and diabetic patients, and patients suffering from serious wounds.

Manzil was one of the first standalone homecare providers in the UAE to receive accreditation from JCI, the oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in healthcare in the United States. The company partnered with international medical leaders to bring best practice to the Gulf, including the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network (part of the Harvard Medical School network).

About Spectator Video Technology

Founded over 15 years ago, Spectator Video Technology is a leading worldwide provider of video control and service center platforms, for a wide variety of mission critical applications and value-added services in Security, Healthcare and Communication markets.

The Spectator Communication Platform (SCP) provides a multi-disciplinary and multi-protocol eHealth, mobile Care and Tele-medicine platform for remote Primary Care, Chronic Care and Elderly Care solutionsSpectator provides Solutions for Primary Care, e.g. the BiDiApp for mobile devices; Chronic Care Solutions in combination with biosensors for cardiac/ hypertension, pulmonary and diabetes/ obesity patients, as well as video assisted and mobile personal alarm systems, such as Video supported (VAS) and mobile Personal Alarm Systems (mPAS) for Elderly Care.

With its principle office in Made, The Netherlands, Spectator has also regional offices in 4 continents to guarantee commercial as well as 24/7 on-line technical support to its private and public monitoring and service partners: in Manama, Bahrain for the Middle East region; in Cape Town, South Africa for the African continent; in Kiev, Ukraine for the CIS region and in Manizales, Colombia for the Latin American market.

In the UAE market Spectator closely works together with its system integrator partner CADD Emirates to ensure local support.

For more information please contact:

Zeina Saab Marketing Manager Manzil Healthcare Services Email: saab@manzilhealth.ae

For more information please visit www.manzilhealth.com/uae

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Increased Salary with a Mеdiсаl Degree: Consider your Options

Medical Physicians are probably one of the highest paid professions in the world. These professionals make a lot of money and have the ability to set their own schedules to some extent, but it’s certainly not an easy job. Doctors provide diagnosis, treatment, medicines and counselling to people suffering from a variety of illnesses and diseases.

To be part of the medical profession it takes years and years of study and sometimes life just doesn’t allow you to take time off for your studies. This is where distance learning online courses in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and the rest of the Middle East come in handy.

Even with a promise of higher salaries, the medical world may not be something that is for you. However, these are various routes such as Psychology of Work (a course dedicated to people interested in the HR profession) or aMasters in Diabetes (a course designed to help practitioners understand how to combat diabetes through clinical research)

Nevertheless, this article discusses the requirements of someone interested in the medical field

Eight Years at the least!

Upon completing your undergraduate degree, you would have at the least another 8 yeas of full-time schooling before you can become a medical doctor. If you want to specialize you may be looking at close to 10-12 years of additional study time. The time commitment and financial commitment is enormous and this makes them the number one reasons why most people opt out of the medical world professions. So if you like working with people and want to become a ‘healer’ just be sure you are truly interested in the medicine world to dedicate the first few years of your young life. Your friends may already have started their careers in sales or marketing or finance, but your dedication will be your success!

Shadow a Doctor

This is an interesting suggestion, before you start with medical school, get in touch with your local physician and request to shadow/follow them around for a week! This could be clubbed with internship activities for your high school or IB diploma in the last couple of years and then you would get a true sense of what it means to help people. You could also go to the extent of shadowing several doctors in different departments and you would then be in an informed position before taking the plunge!

If shadowing is not possible, consider volunteering at a local hospital, a nursing home or any other health care related establishment. This way you will gain valuable exposure that will not only support your medical degree application but give you first hand experience of what is the scope and range of the industry.

How big are the Salaries?

Doctors can make anywhere between $80,000 a year to well over $200,000 a year depending on the specialties and their experience, the reputation of the facility and the doctor itself. We have heard numerous stories of doctors traveling from all over the world to consult on special surgical cases as well as month long waiting lists to meet a renowned specialist such as cardiac surgeons, brain surgeons and so on.

The salary points are influenced by all the above points but with all the years of hard work and dedication the difference in earnings from someone in a sales position is significant! Dentists tend to own their own practice and consult in larger hospitals, the potential earnings is huge if you provide proper facilities and services. We all know we check with family and friends (even on Facebook groups) prior to consulting with a doctor, dentist or paediatrist as we want the best for ourselves and our families.

The Downsides

Just as there are significant advantages to being in the medical world there are also a number of downsides to being a doctor.

·         If you are a surgeon or an obstetric or an anesthesiologist, you would be on call for at least half the month – day and night.

·         Sometimes you are not even allowed to take a break during holiday season, such as Christmas, Eid, Diwali and so on.

·         Your family life will be structured around your work schedules and may not always be fair to your spouse and children.

·         Malpractice Insurance for doctors is extremely expensive

But we all need doctors and surgeons and dentists and so on… don’t we? These are also major reasons who medical professionals are so highly paid, replacing them is not as easy as replacing an admin staff member.

Other options/possibilities:

So, as I mentioned at the start of this article, after reading through all the ups and down of the medical world and gaining some hands-on experience through internships, you decide this is not for you but you still want to ‘help’ people…then you may want to consider becoming a nurse or a physician’s assistant.

Nursing like doctors are as knowledgeable and as informed but unable to give out prescriptions. It is the nurses who actually take care of in-patients and make sure recovery is going as planned/expected. Doctors visit their patients once a day on their rounds and that’s it!

A physician’s assistants position also allows you to work with patients, pays fairly well and is less demanding in terms of time commitment, financial commitment and stress!

What other options are available via distance education in UAE? How about an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) to start with? It does not take long to complete this course (varies from country to country) and plays an extremely important role intervening in medical emergencies!

I would recommend you investigate the local/regional possibilities such as the University of Leicester distance learning masters’ programs in health & psychology.

Checklist Before signing up

Here is a simple checklist to review prior to investing in your medical degree:

        Can you commit to eight (8)years or more of studying after your undergraduate degree?

        Are you good at calculus?

        Are you capable of absorbing large volumes of information?

        Have you shadowed a doctor?

        Have you considered volunteer work while in school?

        Do you have an education and career roadmap?

        Can you handle the stress of the job?

     ��  Have you addressed all the cons?

        Are you able to accept constructive criticism?

        Is research of more interest to you or is helping people?

        How much does it cost to start my own medical practice in the future?

When you have honestly answered, all the above questions, then I believe you will be in a position to decide whether or not the medical world is a right fit for you. Do not be daunted by this article or the scope of toil mentioned above, we need and want doctors, but doctors need to be sympathetic and genuinely concerned individuals…

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The author of this article recommends Stafford Global, which is engaged in offering distance learning courses and online education in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Qatar, Riyadh, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Middle East. Stafford works in collaboration with prestigious UK based Universities such as the University of Leicester that is QAA certified and internationally recognized.

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Faces of IBD: Celebrating our patients and their caregivers

IBD nurse practitioner Caitlin Dolan educating her patient Jenna, 11

Some say it takes a village to raise a child. When it comes to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), our patients and their families depend on a “village” of caregivers — gastroenterologists, nurses, dietitians, social workers and more — to carry them through their journey.

In honor of World IBD Day, May 19, we are celebrating the patients who inspire us and the dedicated Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center team that diagnose, educate and treat nearly 1,500 patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis each year.

Defining the disease and finding life-changing treatment

When Camden was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, he had excruciating stomach pain, was losing weight and had a rare form of the disease called orofacial granulomatosis (OFG) — a chronic inflammatory condition of the mouth that often causes mouth sores.

“Camden was quite sick when he arrived,” says Dr. Athos Bousvaros, Camden’s gastroenterologist and associate director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center.

Dr. Athos Bousvaros and Camden, 18

Today, the soon-to-be, high-school graduate is in full remission and visits with his IBD team every six weeks for intravenous infusions of a medication.

“I love Dr. B,” says Camden who is attending Duke University to pursue a career in engineering. “I’m getting top-notch treatment from caring experts at one of the best hospitals in the world. I have practically hit the lottery.” Read Camden’s story.

Traveling thousands of miles but feeling at home

Two-year-old Gassen is a native of Bahrain, a small island country east of Saudi Arabia. In 2013, she and her parents, Tariq and Manal Boabed traveled 6,400 miles to Boston Children’s Snapper Laboratory for life-saving care for a rare and debilitating condition called very early onset inflammatory bowel disease  (VEO-IBD).

The condition, which affects infants and children under 5, causes severe abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea, and slows growth. The cause of VEO-IBD remains unknow, but likely includes a combination of genetic and environmental factors.

Dr. Scott Snapper, director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and Basic & Translational Research Program, and colleagues are spearheading a new clinical research program and leading the International Very Early Onset IBD Consortium.

Gassen, 2, and Shawn, clinical assistant

Although the family is so far from home, Gassen enjoys her time with the team that cares for her. “Gassen loves the nurses and doctors,” Manal says. “When we leave the hospital, she wants to go back to the hospital to see her friends.” Read Gassen’s story.

The nursing-social work connection

Eleven-year-old Jenna was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis three months ago and is managing her condition with medication. In addition to treatment, she says there are two other important aspects of her care: education and comfort.

“The doctors and nurses make me feel comfortable,” Jenna says. “They are nice and take the time to explain everything, especially the big words that can be confusing.”

Jenna visits with her IBD Center gastroenterologist regularly but is under the watchful eye of several IBD caregivers — her nurse practitioner and social worker.

Caitlin Dolan, nurse practitioner, Jahna Goldmore, GI social worker with Jenna, 11

“We try to have all newly diagnosed patients meet with a nurse practitioner and social worker at diagnosis, so we can address many topics from how IBD affects our patients on a social and emotional level to its impact on family and school,” says Jahna Goldmore, an IBD Center social worker.

Nurse practitioner Caitlin Dolan says caring for patients compassionately and holistically is what makes Boston Children’s special.

“With IBD being a chronic illness, we see our patients every few months and really get to know our families,” she says. “I love hearing about vacations, school, proms, graduation and transitioning to college.”

The power of nutrition

Properly managing IBD symptoms goes well beyond medical treatment — it also includes diet and nutrition.

“We start with education and move onto translating diet and nutrition information into meal plans and creating strategies to help our patients improve their health,” says Karen Warman, an IBD clinical nutrition specialist.

Karen Warman and Sophie Burge, clinical nutrition specialists

When working with children, adolescents and teens managing IBD, the personalized nutrition plans are dependent on symptoms, changes in health, age, activity level and other factors.

“I find it exciting to empower young people to make healthy diet changes that will help them feel better,” says Sophie Burge, also a clinical nutrition specialist in the IBD Center. “Each patient is different and we enjoy providing individualized nutrition plans for them.”

IBD research: Saying ‘cure’ is not fantasy

Our scientists are working to determine exactly how the immune system and gene-environment triggers impact IBD and are discovering the causes of and improving the treatments for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

“Because of the research we are doing at Boston Children’s, we are actually at the point of personalized care, or precision medicine, for IBD patients,” says Snapper. “Today, saying, ‘cure’ is not fantasy. We are and will continue to get to cures for our patients.” Learn more about Boston Children’s research.

Read our patient stories and learn more about Boston Children’s Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center.

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