All statements about United Kingdom

24 statements about United Kingdom in 7 sources, by upload date.

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2018

2018-01-10 · Euthanasia - Medical Ethics and Law at the end of life — a guest: Active euthanasia, passive euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are all illegal in the UK, because intending to end someone's life constitutes murder. — 00:06:10
2018-01-10 · Euthanasia - Medical Ethics and Law at the end of life — Ali grants that many call the line between unplugging life support to end a life and because it no longer serves the patient mere semantics, but in UK law the intent cannot be to end life. — 00:08:03
2018-01-10 · Euthanasia - Medical Ethics and Law at the end of life — a guest: Under the doctrine of double effect, a doctor who gives a drug knowing it may shorten a patient's life acts legally in the UK if the intent is to relieve symptoms, not to shorten life. — 00:10:08
2018-01-10 · Euthanasia - Medical Ethics and Law at the end of life — Ali says that euthanasia is strictly illegal in the UK, but people have tried over the last few years to change the law. — 00:16:51
2018-01-10 · Euthanasia - Medical Ethics and Law at the end of life — Ali personally thinks UK law should be changed to allow a little more leeway for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. — 00:16:51
2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says the Suicide Act 1961 makes it illegal in the UK to assist anyone's suicide, whether by giving them a pill or by helping them fly to the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland. — 00:03:33
2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says family-assisted suicide is still technically illegal in the UK, but high-profile cases over the last 25 to 30 years have made the law less draconian. — 00:04:55
2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says Debbie Purdy, whose case shaped UK law, had multiple sclerosis and would be physically unable to take her own life in the end stages of the disease. — 00:07:16
2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says assisting someone's suicide is still illegal under the Suicide Act 1961, despite the prosecution guidelines. — 00:08:23
2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia and "passive euthanasia" are all completely illegal in the UK, and a physician who helped a patient commit suicide would be prosecuted. — 00:13:52
2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali predicts UK law will probably change at some point to allow physician-assisted suicide in some form, as the world becomes more libertarian about the right to choose when one's life ends. (hedged) — 00:14:21
2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Abi 5A9Ae87434: Abi says the Charlie Gard case caused a huge media storm and was very highly covered both in the UK and, interestingly, in the US. — 00:01:27
2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says UK courts are specifically designed to be independent from the government. — 00:12:21
2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Abi 5A9Ae87434: Abi says the NHS already provides extraordinarily expensive treatments and flies patients abroad for treatments not offered in the UK. — 00:18:32
2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says life support, mechanical ventilation and artificial feeding are medical interventions, and in the UK, quite properly in his view, they are not given unless a benefit is strongly expected. — 00:22:14
2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Abi 5A9Ae87434: Abi says by many definitions euthanasia means intending the patient to die, while the UK distinguishes intending death from foreseeing it as a side effect of withdrawing treatment. — 00:23:17
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali says medical school in the UK lasts five years. — 00:00:00
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: Some UK medical schools, such as Cambridge, require an intercalated degree, and there medical school lasts six years. — 00:00:29
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: Every UK medical graduate does the two-year Foundation Programme, FY1 and FY2, usually with three different rotations in each year. — 00:00:29
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali says doctors become consultants after ST8: leaving medical school at about 24 and core training at 28, then six years of ST3–ST8 make 34–35 the earliest consultant age. — 00:01:56
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: For the Foundation Programme the UK is split into regions: Scotland and Wales are each pretty much one region, and England is split into many. — 00:04:32
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: To a Damascus University student thinking of moving to the UK, Ali says go for it, but nothing is particularly amazing about the UK: the grass seems greener elsewhere, as people in the UK think of America, so do not move for that reason. — 00:06:32

2017

2017-06-20 · BMAT Section 1 - Everything you need to know · BMAT Tips series — Ali Abdaal (channel): SixMed's BMAT Crash Course is a classroom course that has run for five years in the UK, Amsterdam, Singapore and Hong Kong. — video description
2017-08-08 · Sunset over Phnom Penh (Cambodia) - Cambridge Medical Elective #06 — Ali: Looking back, Ali is very glad they chose Phnom Penh for the elective because it is vibrant, chaotic and very different from the UK, rather than somewhere more developed such as Australia or America. — 00:00:52