In recent years, growth in the demand for emergency medical services along with decline in the number of hospitals with emergency departments (EDs) has led to overcrowding. In periods of overcrowding, an ED can request the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agency to divert incoming ambulances to neighboring hospitals, a phenomenon known as “ambulance diversion”. The EMS agency will accept this r...

Scott, J. E. S. (1973). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 48, 199. Urinary diversion in children. A series of 60 children subjected to urinary diversion is described. Particular emphasis is placed on the long-term results of 41 ileal conduit operations. The upper urinary tract became dilated postoperatively in 9 children in whom it had been normal preoperatively, dilatation increased in 1 child...

The convenient storage and evacuation of the urine'is essential to a tolerable existence. Surgical methods to restore these functions, 'when they have been lost as a result of congenital abnormality or acquired disease, have mostly been based on the principle of urinary diversion into some part of the intestinal tract, isolated or intact. The history of these attempts is an interesting one, and...

Have you ever felt bored (Fig 1)? Ever found yourself with nothing engaging to do? Experienced a lack of interest in everything and everyone around you? Although not a pleasant state in which to find oneself, is boredom bad for health? In a rare moment of idleness one day, we pondered whether the expression ‘bored to death’ has any basis. Are people who are bored more likely to die earlier than...

Diversion from custody is a policy supporting the removal of people with mental disorders from the criminal justice system to hospital or a suitable community placement where they can receive treatment. There are three principal reasons why such a policy is necessary. First, when those with mental disorders fall through the net of psychiatric services they tend to gravitate towards the criminal...