Profession of Medicine

The Profession of Medicine and its Rivals

“In the next room you could hear the buzzers sounding. After about 20 minutes you could hear the men shouting for the nurse, “Nurse, nurse”, and it just went on and on. And then very often it would be two people calling at the same time and then you would hear them crying, like shouting “Nurse” louder, and then you would hear them just crying, just sobbing, they would just sob and you just pres...

The Development of Medicine as a Profession

different teaching methods favoured in the same medical school by successive staffs. The mark left by the teacher upon the student body has been studied with particular care by the authors, as also the changing balance between research and teaching programmes. For those unfamiliar with certain links between European and American pharmacology in the last century and the role played in recent yea...

Machine Learning and the Profession of Medicine.

Utility of Evidence-Based Medicine in the Medical Profession.

are problematic. Although empiricism (ie, the doctrine that all knowledge is derived from sense experience) is not the only path to knowledge, EBM and POEMs (ie, EBM’s most clinically relevant offshoot) apply knowledge and evidence that produces outcomes. If a medical outcome is not “sensed” in some way by our patients or recognized through laboratory evaluations, it should be questioned along ...

Conversations in disaster medicine and public health: the profession.

Using historical and research examples of disaster and crisis science, I argue here for the professionalization of disaster medicine and public health as a unique and essential discipline in support of global public health security. Questions about clinical competencies of providers and reports of unacceptable practices and the limited scope of guidelines for foreign medical teams have persiste...