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End-of-life decisions in the UK involving medical practitioners.

This study estimates the frequency of different medical end-of-life decisions (ELDs) made in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2007-2008, comparing these with 2004. Postal survey was carried out with 8857 medical practitioners, of whom 3733 (42%) practitioners replied, with 2869 having attended a person who died in the previous year. The proportion of UK deaths involving (1) voluntary euthanasia (0.21...

Dental Surgery for Medical Practitioners

tartar but the latter in the first place is purely a deposit of lime salts from saliva. On pp. 56 and 57 he states that the carbohydrate eating Indians are freer from caries than meat-eating Europeans. This may be true, but it is not the meat portion of European diet that causes caries, but the various other patent and manufactured foods that they eat. On the other hand the tremendous prevalenc...

Dental Surgery for Medical Practitioners

amonIg British Muslim medical practitioners

Editor's note Miss Molkoy, a British Muslim and a trained nurse has been carryingout researchfor the Certiftcate in the Study of Islam at the Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations. This paper is based on that research. In collecting her evidence on attitudes to medical ethics Miss Molloy explores with her survey sample such topics as contraception, life support machines, ...

Views of General Practitioners and Clinical Medical School Faculty to Adapt the Educational needs of Continuing Medical Education programs

Introduction: Continuing education is a necessity in the world. To develop educational programs in the first step, educational needs must be properly identified. To train general practitioners (GPs), the present study was conducted at Golestan University of Medical Sciences in order to assess the needs of continuing education programs in view of general practitioners participating in the progra...