Doctors as patients: submission deadline extended

Ignoring the obvious: doctors' wives as patients.

There is a widely held belief among doctors and nurses that when a colleague is in hospital, if anything can go wrong during the course of his illness it invariably will. To investigate this belief, we studied prospectively a group of pregnant doctors and doctors' wives, comparing the number of obstetric, paediatric, and psychiatric complications with those in two control groups of similar soci...

Doctors as patients: a systematic review of doctors' health access and the barriers they experience.

BACKGROUND The need to improve doctors' access to health care by reducing the barriers they experience has been regularly described in the literature, yet the barriers experienced are not well defined, despite the volume of expert opinion in this area. AIM To define what is known about doctors' access to health care from the data within the current literature. DESIGN OF STUDY A systematic r...

Patients and Their Doctors

Patients and Doctors

Patients, doctors, and legislators.

A I prepared to examine a new patient, “B,” I commented on her lovely necklace. B told me that her mother had given it to her more than 20 years ago, when she was diagnosed with a serious medical condition. “Oh?” I asked. My curiosity was piqued—B hadn’t reported any important family history. Her mother, it turned out, had Huntington’s disease. The necklace was a gift, given before her mother d...