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New Doctor Who season two launch date confuses fans with ‘random’ announcement

New Doctor Who season two launch date confuses fans with ‘random’ announcement

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Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter The BBC has confirmed that Doctor Who will return with a new season on 12 April after a surprise announcement that appeared on the broadcaster’s iPlayer service on Friday. Sex Education actor, Ncuti Gatwa made his debut as the Time Lord in December 2023. The new season will also star Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra and Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday. Also joining the cast is Strictly Come Dancing star Rose Ayling-Ellis, who won the BBC dancing competition as the show’s first ever deaf contestant in 2021. Russell T Davies – who rebooted the cult series back in 2005 – returned to write and executive produce the new seasons, which marked the first time Doctor Who was aired internationally on Disney Plus and on the BBC in the UK. Gatwa’s second season as the Doctor was expected to air later this year but it appears that …

Why was a struck off doctor able to keep circumcising boys?

Why was a struck off doctor able to keep circumcising boys?

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Earlier this month, former doctor Mohammad Siddiqui received a five-year custodial sentence having been convicted of actual bodily harm and child cruelty relating to the non-therapeutic circumcision of boys between 2014 and 2019 . He has also pled guilty to administering prescription-only medicines contrary to the law. Siddiqui ran a ‘mobile circumcision service’ and operated on boys ranging from neonates to teenagers across the UK, including dozens of children from Muslim and Christian backgrounds. He was struck off in 2015 for performing “botched and unhygienic” ritual circumcisions. A medical tribunal described his practice as “callous and completely unacceptable”. Nonetheless, he was able to continue carrying out circumcisions: there is no legal requirement for a circumciser to be medically qualified or registered. Non-medical circumcisers are unregulated, meaning a child can, for example, be ritually circumcised on a dining room table, without anaesthesia, with no medical documentation or follow-up. In one case, a 15-year-old victim of Siddiqui had to be admitted to hospital via ambulance for surgery after he began to bleed following the circumcision. Police found …

TMU’s new medical school will address Ontario’s doctor shortage

TMU’s new medical school will address Ontario’s doctor shortage

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The opening of a new medical school at Toronto Metropolitan University brings good news for Ontario’s strained healthcare system, which is experiencing a huge doctor shortage. Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) is poised to open its new medical school in Brampton in September. The first class will include 94 undergraduates and 105 postgraduates to address the region’s huge doctor shortage. According to TMU President Mohamed Lachemi, all students will be Canadian, with the majority hailing from Ontario. He said the goal is to welcome a diverse group of future doctors, hoping many will opt to stay and work in Brampton. “We know that Brampton is one of the most culturally diverse and fast-growing cities in the country, but also its residents regularly experience challenges with access to primary care,” Lachemi explained. The growing problem of Ontario’s doctor shortage There were 2.5 million Ontarians without a family doctor as of July last year. Funding new medical schools is one part of the Ford government’s plan to deal with the issue of doctor shortage, which has been prevalent …

Why Oz Is the Doctor Trump Ordered

Why Oz Is the Doctor Trump Ordered

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Donald Trump appears to experience the world through the glow of a television screen. He has long placed a premium on those who look the part in front of the camera. Paging Dr. Mehmet Oz. Trump has picked Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. CMS, as the agency is known, falls under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Last week, Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as HHS secretary. As you may have guessed, Kennedy and Oz are not only friends but kindred spirits. Oz is a global adviser at iHerb, a for-profit company that offers “Earth’s best-curated selection of health and wellness products at the best possible value.” He and Kennedy, two relative outsiders, are now positioned to enjoy a symbiotic relationship within Trump’s chaotic ecosystem. Oz was last seen …

The Doctor Who Theme Reimagined as a Jacques Brel-esque Jazz Tune

The Doctor Who Theme Reimagined as a Jacques Brel-esque Jazz Tune

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Writ­ten by Ron Grain­er, and then famous­ly arranged and record­ed by Delia Der­byshire in 1963, the Doc­tor Who theme song has been adapt­ed and cov­ered many times, and even ref­er­enced by Pink Floyd. In the hands of come­di­an Bill Bai­ley, the song comes out a lit­tle differently–a lit­tle like a Bel­gian Jacques Brel-esque jazz cre­ation. This record­ing of “Doc­teur Qui” appar­ent­ly comes from the DVD Bill Bai­ley’s Remark­able Guide to the Orches­tra. Enjoy… If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newslet­ter, please find it here. Or fol­low our posts on Threads, Face­book, BlueSky or Mastodon. If you would like to sup­port the mis­sion of Open Cul­ture, con­sid­er mak­ing a dona­tion to our site. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your con­tri­bu­tions will help us con­tin­ue pro­vid­ing the best free cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al mate­ri­als to learn­ers every­where. You can con­tribute through Pay­Pal, Patre­on, and Ven­mo (@openculture). Thanks! Relat­ed Con­tent  The Fas­ci­nat­ing Sto­ry of How Delia Der­byshire Cre­at­ed the Orig­i­nal Doc­tor Who Theme Two Doc­u­men­taries Intro­duce Delia Der­byshire, the Pio­neer in Elec­tron­ic Music How Doc­tor Who First …

ChatGPT Is Absolutely Atrocious At Being a Doctor

ChatGPT Is Absolutely Atrocious At Being a Doctor

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Image by Getty / Futurism You might feel okay with using ChatGPT to write a tedious email or two, but would you trust it with being your doctor? New research suggests that you probably shouldn’t. After being presented with 150 medical cases, the AI chatbot only gave a correct diagnosis less than half of the time, as detailed in a new study published in the journal Plos One. The findings show that in its current form, ChatGPT “is not accurate as a diagnostic tool,” the researchers wrote, which would call into question the efforts by companies like Google that are experimenting with chatbots being used in hospitals. And as AI models are being released specifically for medical purposes, the authors worry that the public will overestimate the technology’s capabilities. “If people are scared, confused, or just unable to access care, they may be reliant on a tool that seems to deliver medical advice that’s ‘tailor-made’ for them,” study co-author and Western University assistant professor Amrit Kirpalani told Live Science. “I think as a medical community …

Heart attack doctor asks, is death now reversible?

Heart attack doctor asks, is death now reversible?

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Resuscitation specialist Sam Parnia, reflects in his new book, Lucid Dying (Hachette, August 6, 2024), on the recent discovery that brains can be resuscitated hours after death. From the sample pages offered at the book’s Amazon site, we learn that in 2019, a writer at prominent science journal Nature sent Parnia a copy of the embargoed results of a study of pig brains from a slaughterhouse, kept alive for hours after death. “I was left totally stunned and speechless” he recounts: For at least a decade, I had tried to draw attention to the fact that our concept of life and death should be redefined. Death should no longer be viewed as a specific black-and-white moment. Instead, it should be understood as a medically treatable event for many hours after it has taken place. (page 16) Both the study and the article about it are still embargoed at Nature but from a contemporary source, Vox, we learn that Yale neuroscientist Nenad Sestan and colleagues partially revived disembodied pig brains after many hours of death: First, …

SDCC 2024 Highlights: Downey Jr. Is Doctor Doom, ‘The Penguin’ Trailer and More

SDCC 2024 Highlights: Downey Jr. Is Doctor Doom, ‘The Penguin’ Trailer and More

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CNET is on the ground live at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, and we’ve got all the biggest news from Marvel, Prime Video, Max, Peacock and other entertainment giants. Deadpool & Wolverine even made an appearance on Thursday ahead of their new flick hitting theaters on Friday. If you couldn’t make it out to California, we’ve got all the latest in TV, movies and animation to keep you in the loop. That means we’re sharing new trailer arrivals, panel soundbites and the hottest from Hall H as it happens.  As the days march on, we’ve had some meaty glimpses of what’s new, including The Penguin, Peacock’s Teacup, Alien: Romulus, Like A Dragon: Yakuza and Rings of Power for Prime Video as well as Marvel’s showcase, which offered big reveals about Avengers 5. A roundup of all the week’s biggest drops in TV and film is below. Keep checking back here for daily updates.   Read more: Comic-Con 2024: Rings of Power Season 2 Has Sauron vs. Adar, Orc Destruction Robert Downey Jr. revealed to play Doctor Doom in Avengers 5, …

Canadian Death Doctor Has Euthanized Hundreds of Patients

Canadian Death Doctor Has Euthanized Hundreds of Patients

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This article is reprinted from National Review with the permission of the author . Legalizing euthanasia corrupts everything — the ethics of medicine, the public’s perception of people experiencing illness, disability, or elder frailty, the media that continually swoon over medics who kill. This latter phenomenon is on vivid display in a National Post story profiling a doctor who spends half her time legally killing patients by lethal injection, and most of the rest legally killing fetuses. In “This Kindly MAID Doctor Helped More Than 400 People Die: How Many Assisted Deaths are Too Many?” we learn that Dr. Ellen Wiebe loves her work: For Wiebe, medical assistance in dying (MAID) is “incredibly rewarding” work. She hasn’t faced nearly the same sort of stigma she once faced as an abortion provider and says that while she and her MAID colleagues “all work within the law,” she’s also not as “conservative” as some. . . . Most recently, Wiebe was featured in the BBC documentary, Better off Dead?, an exploration of the assisted suicide debate by British actor and comedian Liz …

Doctor accused of amputating boy’s penis during ritual circumcision

Doctor accused of amputating boy’s penis during ritual circumcision

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A doctor in Australia has been accused of amputating a baby’s penis during a ritual circumcision. Dr Hershel Goldman, a GP in Melbourne, ‘amputated or partially amputated‘ the penis of a seven day old baby, known as “Patient 2”, according to the Medical Board of Australia. He also circumcised another seven day old baby, known as “Patient 1”, who required “hospitalisation and an emergency blood transfusion”. In April, the Board took ‘immediate action’ to ban Goldman from carrying out circumcisions. Immediate action can be taken when the practitioner poses a “serious risk” and it is necessary to “protect public health or safety”. Last week, it emerged Goldman had failed at a tribunal to overturn the ban, pending a review of the Board’s decision later this year. Non-consensual circumcision of boys is a common practice among Jewish and Muslim communities, who believe it to be a religious requirement. In Jewish communities, boys are typically circumcised within days of birth. Goldman “pressed on with ritual prayers” despite amputation In the case of Patient 2, Goldman allegedly performed …