

McCall, Alan Fanchini, Maurizio Coutts, Aaron J Prediction: The Modern-Day Sport-Science and Sports-Medicine "Quest for the Holy Grail". The emphasis is on using current documentation like articles, books and newspapers as primary sources to reflect on the possible effect of the Traditional Health Methods This is an exploratory and descriptive study that makes use of an historical approach by means of investigation and a literature review. Aims The study aimed to determine if the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007 challenges the holy grails of South African medical doctors, subsequently affecting the long-established management and guardian system of the medical field within South Africa or the practice rights of medical doctors. This may also create internal conflict in the South African medical brotherhood that can cost medical doctors more ground. The recognition of traditional healers by means of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22, 2007 seems to challenge these holy grails of medical doctors. Since the 1980s, some powers vested in these holy grails have been lost to the allied health professions and to other insiders of the HPCSA brotherhood itself. The power of these holy grails has become untouchable to anyone outside the medical domain. This jurisdiction became more comprehensive and extent with time in South Africa to include a collection of unique medical traditions, customs, privileges, habits, healthcare rights and empowerment as well as exclusive medical training and practice models to become known as the holy grails of the South African medical doctors. This phenomenon led initially to doctors having a certain jurisdiction to set the pace and to make the rules. World War II gave doctors the final approval to take this supervisory and sole decision-making role regarding healthcare training, practice models and other health workers in South Africa. This powerbase was established over many years, especially after the early 1930s. Will the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22, 2007 challenge the holy grails of South African medical doctors?ĭirectory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)įull Text Available Background The South African healthcare establishment is primarily managed and overseen by medical doctors.
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Last year edX adopted the new MIT concept of a MicroMasters credential: a series of graduate level courses offered by top universities to advance their career. In the MOOC world new concepts hatch every month, trying to find the Holy Grail of online learning. MicroMasters: the pursuit of the Holy Grail in online learningīarbosa de Almeida Cabral, P.M. At best, effective pain management is based on prevention, As a consequence, neonatal pain management is still in search for the Holy Grail. TextabstractInadequate pain management but also inappropriate use of analgesics in early infancy has negative effects on neuro-developmental outcome. Neonatal pain management: Still in search of the Holy Grail "Our knowledge of the universe has evolved considerably over the pas ten years - and perhaps it might do so even more dramatically when CERN, the European organization for nuclear research located in Geneva, inaugurates its new particle accelerator this summer: the tool for discovery of the "God Particle" and a step towards the holy grail of science." (4 pages + photos)
