Should clinicians accept management responsibilities?

Should clinicians accept management responsibilities?

What Clinicians Should Know

Case presentation: A 36-year-old nonsmoking, normotensive South Asian man presented to the emergency department of a community hospital with retrosternal chest pain of 60 minutes’ duration. His 12-lead ECG demonstrated 10 mm of STsegment elevation in leads V2 through V6, and he received fibrinolytic therapy within 90 minutes of symptom onset. His pain resolved, but his ST segments only partiall...

Should family physicians accept gifts from patients?

I think it is safe to say that most family physicians have received gifts from patients, even if it was only a box of chocolates, an apple pie, or a bottle of wine. Although only 20% of physicians say they have received gifts,1 it would not surprise me if the opposite were true. Indeed, it is unusual for a family physician not to have accepted gifts of some kind. In fact, several codes of ethic...

Biosimilars: what clinicians should know.

Biosimilar medicinal products (biosimilars) have become a reality in the European Union and will soon be available in the United States. Despite an established legal pathway for biosimilars in the European Union since 2005 and increasing and detailed regulatory guidance on data requirements for their development and licensing, many clinicians, particularly oncologists, are reluctant to consider...

Clinicians should be aware of their responsibilities as role models: a case report on the impact of poor role modeling

BACKGROUND Role modeling is an important and valuable educational method. It is predominant throughout (under-)graduate medical education, and attributes of exemplary medical role models are manifold. AIM This article describes the impact of poor role modeling on medical students' professional and personal development on the basis of a singular incident at an associated teaching hospital. In ...