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A doctor broke furniture and threw documents on the floor at the Jardim América health clinic in Cariacica on Tuesday morning, after being angered by the lack of structure of the unit. Everything happened in front of patients waiting for care. A video made by a patient waiting for a consultation showed all the confusion. According to Cariacica's Undersecretary of Health, Jocemir Joaquim da Silva, the doctor has been working as a general practitioner for more than 20 years and will not be arrested or removed. Calmer, the doctor told the city that he will reimburse everything he broke. "It was because of working conditions. We got here, we heard him, let's hear the supervisor and co-workers now to find out what happened. The doctor said that he wanted a place to work, the room was occupied. He has always been an exceptional professional, has a beautiful history in the county. We asked him to go to the house to rest and then come back to talk and work, ...

It was just to be a joke, when the Brazilian José Gerardo Soares Filho, 18, a nursing student, decided to take a pregnancy test and the result was positive. It was in January of this year during a class. Upon showing the exam at home, her mother thought the result was the boy's girlfriend. But not. The hormonal alteration that gave a false positive pregnancy was due to a rare cancer: TGC (germ cell tumor, choriocarcinoma), located in the mediastinum (thoracic region). According to a study by researchers at the Cancer Hospital A.C. Camargo, this type of cancer is very rare, presenting in small germ cell tumors of the mediastinum. It affects young men (15-35 years old) and rarely women. They are usually not very large. One of the symptoms is precisely a high rate of serum b-HCG - the same hormone produced by pregnant women and detected in the pregnancy test. Gerardo was then submitted to chemotherapy sessions. At the beginning of June, despite a clinical improvement, the exams s...

People awaiting care at a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro The financial crisis of the State of Rio de Janeiro, paralyzed hospitals and reaches different sectors of the administration of governor Luiz Fernando Pezão. "The Rio de Janeiro is broken, bankrupt," said the doctor Jorge Darze, president of Sinmed/RJ (Syndicate of Doctors of Rio de Janeiro). The syndicate of doctors and other government agencies that are responsible for oversee the actions of the governor and the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, formed a crisis cabinet to monitor the situation. The group wants an audit of accounts to find out, after all, why the state coffers are empty. In practice, they should be experiencing other reasons to justify what is happening today. At the same time, the subway extension works continue, new parks were built  and overpriced works of the Olympics are far from being finalized. The conclusion is that the money which should be allocated to health, was used in infrastructur...