Cruise-ship health care: prescription for trouble

Article Abstract:

Cruise lines, which are expected to have 6.4 million annual passengers by the year 2000, excel in comfort and services but tend to have below-average medical care and facilities. No cruise ship is required to have a doctor for the duration of the trip, and there are no international regulations for standards applicable to physicians, nurses, and health facilities. Examples of patients' life-threatening experiences from poor medical care are examined.

Standards, Laws, regulations and rules, Services, Emergency medical services, Cruise lines, Cruise ships, Medical law, Emergency medical personnel, Physicians, Foreign, Foreign physicians

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A report remembers

Article Abstract:

Being a travel writer came as second nature to journalist David Halberstam who first travelled abroad as a foreign war correspondent in the early 1960s.

Interview, Travelers, Journalists, Halberstam, David

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