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This is DrWillem's site with information about Child Health and Medical Ethics.
Most of the texts of this site are in English. This site was started in 1998 as www.drwillem.nl and you can still see much of the original and added material in Dutch.
The information is located in separate chapters as indicated by the above tabs.
There are special feedback pages and your opinion will be appreciated.
Each chapter opens in its own window. This home page can be reached from all pages.
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Paediatrics is the Health Care for young persons and involves diagnosis and treatment of diseases,
prevention of illness, health surveillance and the care for young persons with normal health, chronic illness, disorder or disability. Paediatrics is practised in school clinics, GP surgeries, general hospitals
and children's hospitals. It serves persons up to the age of 18 years.
This chapter contains the guidelines for general paediatrics, emergency paediatrics, neonatology
and child protection as it is practised under DrWillem responsibility.
There is a section about paediatric notes making. This section is for the junior doctors and serves as a reference for the practice.
There is a limited amount of information about the work of a general paediatrician.
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DrWillem is a general paediatrician with a special interest in diabetes mellitus. Together with his team members he is responsible for the care for more than 250 young persons with diabetes and who live in Grampian in the North East of Scotland.
This chapter contains the guidelines of the diabetes care as it is practised where DrWillem works.
The pages contain information for parents and children and serve as a reference for junior doctors.
The Elgin Protocol for Treatment of DKA in Young Persons is displayed in its own window.
There are a few computer programs and files made by parents and DrWillem to help with calculating
treatment and storing information.
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DrWillem is also trained as a medical ethicist, in fact he has been interested in the moral aspects of life from before his medical career.
This chapter gives you an introduction in ethics (in Dutch) as well as further introduction into medical ethics or bio-ethics as is also called.
The section called FORUM contains a number of essays by DrWillem. They are about general ethical subjects. In more detail is a paragraph about the Principle of Reciprocity.
Furthermore there are a number of essays about subjects of interest, according to DrWillem, in which he gives his opinion.
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Each year this website organizes the Diabetes Essay and Poem Competition. This competition is
open for young persons with diabetes and who have not yeat reached the age of 25 years on the day of the deadline of sending in the essay or poem.
The object is to give young persons with diabetes a chance to express themselves and to give them a positive experience doing so. There are many nice prizes to be won. The competition has
attracted attention from all over the country (United Kingdom) and also from abroad.
The entries give an excellent account of what goes on in the minds of young persons with diabetes.
Please have a look and see for yourself. Feel free to make a contribution as a writer or as a donor for the prizes (100% of donated money will be paid out to the winners of the competition).
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There are a number of subjects which are of interest to DrWillem in his work and spare time and that do not fit easily in one of the chapters. They are grouped here:
