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Doctors Aid Seamen Aboard Ships via Radio Network
In 1949 the International Radio Medical Centre in Rome coordinates free medical advice for ships of all nations. Dr Guido Guid a and Dr Alexander Van Eyck overview a system where doctors assign cases based on shipboard symptoms relayed by radio. The service, called Medrad, handles about 200 cases yearly and aims to standardize medicine chests on vessels and expand ship-to-hospital medical exchanges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burgan
mid-Atlantic
Guido Guido
Alexande Dubinsky van Eyck
Rome
Guida
South Atlantic
Dr. van Eyck
Tlies
Medrad
International Radio Medical Cen
CIRM
Tiapani
Sicily
Dr. Guida
van Eyck