The Good Doctor

The good doctor: the carer's perspective.

Carers are family members, friends, and neighbours who perform medical tasks and personal care, manage housekeeping and financial affairs, and provide emotional support to people who are ill, disabled, or elderly. From a carer's perspective, the primary requisite for a good doctor is competence. Assuming equal technical skills and knowledge, the difference between 'good' and 'bad' doctors comes...

The good doctor: what patients want.

The way of making a good doctor.

Received: November 4, 2010 • Revised: November 8, 2010 • Accepted: November 10, 2010 Corresponding Author: Sang-Ho Baik Gachon University of Medicine and Science Medical School, 534-2 Yeonsu 3-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 406-799, Korea Tel: +82.32.820.4702 email: [email protected] Korean J Med Educ 2010 Dec;22(4): 249-256. doi: 10.3946/kjme.2010.22.4.249. pISSN: 2005-727X eISSN: 2005-7288 C The Kor...

What a doctor is good for.

Over the years I have served as both a preceptor and colleague for more than a dozen physician assistants and nurse practitioners. All the while I wondered: are they as good as they seem, and are doctors as indispensable as we’d like to believe? When my daughter became a physician assistant I was forced to respond. I share a small practice with six family physicians. Each of us works closely wi...

But above all, a good doctor.

I GRl!E1" YOU, Fellows of the American College of SUI'gl:Ons, from what l believe is a unique position for a president of the College. I do not use unique jn me comparative sense in which it is often em',ployed. I mean really one of a kind. So far as I can determine, I am the only surgeon ever chosen for this high office who had retked from pr.tctice. That :should permit me to survey the surgic...