Stressed GPs: a call for action

Margaret McCartney: Why GPs are stressed.

7. Your patients have an average of three issues to discuss, and you’re keen to talk about the ongoing need for drugs, aims of care, and informed choices. You also have—in 10 minutes or so—to consider targets for smoking cessation, advance care planning, flu vaccinations, and polypharmacy reviews. You’re meant to discuss bowel screening, give opportunistic advice on exercise, and raise the prob...

Spirituality as a sociocultural determinant of health in the context of medical curriculum: A call for action

Background: This study aimed to investigate the state of spirituality in the general medicine curricula in Iran.    Methods: Reference books for general medicine were reviewed and data were analyzed according to the qualitative content analysis method.    Results: After reviewing references, it was found that only 35 paragraphs of the educational reference pages dealt with this subject. Relat...

A call to action.

Miracles are events that transform lives, that restore valued functions, that bring reality to what otherwise was impossible. At the Brady Urological Institute, we continuously strive for new miracles that allow patients, young and old, male and female, to overcome medical challeges and to live to the fullest.

A call to action.

A call to action.