Doctors and nurses: new game, same result

Consultations with doctors and nurses.

Most have family doctor or GP In 2003, an estimated 86% of Canadians aged 12 and older—about 23 million people—reported that they had a “regular” medical doctor. Even if they did not, just over threequarters of people these ages (77%) said they had consulted a family physician or a general practitioner (GP) at least once in the past year. As well, 11% reported having consulted a nurse. Predicta...

helplessness of doctors and nurses in china

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Ethical theory, ethnography, doctors and nurses.

As a social scientist interested in how those engaged in medical interventions as either practitioners or recipients construct and justify their decisions, I was pleased to see both David Robertson's account of his empirical enquiry into such issues when he worked in a psychiatric hospital in this country and your editorial comment on the value of such enquiries. ' Nevertheless, again as a soci...

Doctors and Nurses at the Hospitals

Helplessness of Doctors and Nurses in China

On May 7 this year, a petition called “Help to protect Chinese doctors from violence”, launched by Chinese medical workers, appeared on the website of We The People, asking the American government for seeking the way to interfere the medical violence happened in China. This move was triggered by another violent incident in China against a dentist, who was ultimately stabbed to death. However, i...