Examining doctors

Doctors as patients: postal survey examining consultants and general practitioners adherence to guidelines.

OBJECTIVES To examine the adherence by senior NHS medical staff to the BMA guidelines on the ethical responsibilities of doctors towards themselves and their families. DESIGN Postal semistructured questionnaire. SETTING Four randomly selected NHS trusts and three local medical committees in South Thames region. SUBJECTS Consultants and principals in general practice. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUR...

Do Financial Incentives Increase Doctors’ Willingness to Publish Research? – A Pilot Study of 21 Junior Doctors

Professionalism for future humanistic doctors

Dear editor Clinical environments encounter is an important part of studying medicine (1). Patient contact as an integral part of medical education occurs in various formats in the clinical settings (2, 3). During clinical training, medical students may experience high levels of stress, and some may not deal with it well. The abruptness of students’ transition to the clinical setting generated ...

Assessing patient satisfaction with Sudanese doctors

Dear editor Patients’ satisfaction has long been consideredas an important factor when gauging healthoutcome and quality of care in both developedand developing countries (1) and constitutes asubstantial indicator of the health care quality(2). Researches have shown that satisfiedpatients are more likely to develop a goodrelationship with the health system, leading toimproving compliance, conti...

Doctors' speech and medical terminology today

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