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My night on call in Hungary

When I agreed to contribute a short piece about my experiences as a junior doctor in respiratory medicine I was spending the night on call at my workplace, the Department of Pulmonology, Semmelweis University. So it seemed pretty straightforward to write about my very recent journey through that night, including details to give you a general overview of my nights spent on call. I decided to wri...

My night on call in Poland

I am a young doctor who graduated from the Medical University of Silesia in 2014. After 13 months of postgraduate training, passing a state examination and successful completion of the admission process I made a decision to specialise in Respiratory Medicine. I started working in a large clinical hospital that provides junior doctors with excellent opportunities for training and career developm...

My night on call in Spain

The day starts at 8:00 h with a clinical session in the Respiratory Service of the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, in Barcelona, Spain; from 8:00 to 9:00 h, a colleague discusses and explains to the rest of the department the most important articles published in the past month in his assigned respiratory journal. I run out at 8:55 h as I am about to start a respiratory outpatient clinic, whe...

Please don't call my mom: pediatric consent and confidentiality.

My Agent Will Call Your Agent... But Will It Respond?

As Web based E-commerce and component software become more real, interest in software agents has increased. Agents can be viewed as specialized distributed components, offering greater flexibility than traditional components when developing certain applications. Different kinds of agents have different amounts of personality, mobility, interaction, collaboration, persistence and intelligence. T...