Which doctors die first?

Doctors and witchdoctors: which doctors are which? I.

Which future for doctors in China?

936 www.thelancet.com Vol 382 September 14, 2013 student options, intercalated degrees, and an active undergraduate research society. Data need to be compared with institutions that promote student research less actively. McLean and colleagues report that only 38% of respondents were concerned by long-term debt. The data were collected from a Scottish university where Scottish residents are exe...

Which doctors and with what problems contact a specialist service for doctors? A cross sectional investigation

BACKGROUND In the United Kingdom, specialist treatment and intervention services for doctors are underdeveloped. The MedNet programme, created in 1997 and funded by the London Deanery, aims to fill this gap by providing a self-referral, face-to-face, psychotherapeutic assessment service for doctors in London and South-East England. MedNet was designed to be a low-threshold service, targeting do...

Because of Science You Also Die...; Comment on “Quaternary Prevention, an Answer of Family Doctors to Over Medicalization”

The concept of quaternary prevention (P4) refers to the idea that medicine has acquired the ability to damage through the proper exercise. Family medicine or general practice has the duty of recovering the ethical values and the exercise of a profession with the doctor-patient relationship serving to people’s humanity. In the fourth Congress of Family and Community Medicine, held in Montevideo ...

Which First -- Attitude or Behavior?

It's fitting that my first contribution in the new " Attitude and Behavior " column addresses the age-old question, which comes first-attitude or behavior? Actually, the more practical question is which should be targeted for change first-attitude or behavior? Education typically addresses " attitude " or internal and subjective dimensions of people by attempting to " think people into acting d...