Doctor Who, Family and National Identity

Educational Needs of General Practitioners Who Enrolled as Family Physicians in National Family Medicine Program and Referral System

Introduction: General practitioners who intend to work as “family physician” in Iranian National Family Physician Program should be ready to provide necessary care and services for the population under their coverage. The aim of this study was to survey and prioritize their educational needs required for the determined tasks in order to design proper educational programs. Methods: This cross-s...

Family Doctor

Patient, Hospital, and Family Doctor

DiSSATISFIrn doctors often complain that the status of the family doctor is being steadily lowered and that he will soon be nothing more than a writer of notes directing patients to different hospital departments. The investigation described here is an account of the patients referred to hospital in one particular practice over a period of twelve months. Not much has been published on this topi...

50 Years of Doctor Who

a BBC 2013. Doctor Who chronicles the adventures of an extraterrestrial Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. Although humanoid, the Doctor differs from you or me in many ways, not the least of which is the ability to navigate through space and time (using the TARDIS, an acronym for time and relative dimension in space, an erstwhile British police box). He also has two hearts and the capacity fo...

Who Killed the English National Health Service?

The death of the English National Health Service (NHS) has been pronounced many times over the years, but the time and cause of death and the murder weapon remains to be fully established. This article reviews some of these claims, and asks for clearer criteria and evidence to be presented.