OBJECTIVES To examine the frequency of pharmaceutical company representative (PCR) interactions with doctors in Libya and review possible associations between these interactions and the personal and practice setting characteristics of doctors. METHOD An anonymous survey questionnaire was circulated to 1,000 Libyan doctors in selected public and private practice settings in Tripoli, Benghazi a...

Acquisitions of medical practices by health care systems, particularly tax-exempt health care systems, appear to be on the rise currently. This is because health care systems throughout the country are continuing their strategic efforts to position themselves to be more competitive in the markets that they serve. Motivations for such acquisitive transactions vary from circumstance to circumstan...

Born on 3 October 1844 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Sir Patrick Manson (Fig) was the second child in a family with nine children. After an attempt at an ironmaster’s apprenticeship failed due to illness, Manson focused his attention on medicine, graduating from Aberdeen University, with the degrees MB, CM, and MD in 1865 and 1866. Soon after qualification, he became a medical officer and worked ...

1 DDS PhD Departament of Periodotology, Albanian University and private practice, Tirana, Albania. 2 Albanian Univerity, private practise, Tirana, Albania. 3 Post-gratuated student, Nostra Signora del Buon Consiglio, Tirana, Albania *Corresponding Author’s E-mail: [email protected] Trauma of maxillary teeth in the anterior area is a common accident. In most cases, the result is a root or cr...

PURPOSE To examine relationships between pharmaceutical representatives and obstetrician-gynecologists and identify factors associated with self-reported reliance on representatives when making prescribing decisions. METHOD In 2006-2007, questionnaires were mailed to 515 randomly selected physicians in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Collaborative Ambulatory Research ...

There is little in this book which is either new or untrue. At least half a dozen works on general surgery in the English language give better practical accounts of Diseases of the Rectum than this one. The language is rarely elegant, and often slovenly ; and we have marked many sentences as being grammatically deficient. There is a want of knowledge of the work of others which is by no means m...

The academic orthopaedic department has the primary goal of providing clinical services, educating orthopaedic surgeons, providing advancements through research and technology development, and creating and maintaining the administrative infrastructure that monitors and enables the department's overall mission. Simultaneous reductions in revenues and increases in the cost to practice medicine po...

Dr. Hong is Chairman, Department of Orthodontics, Chong-A Dental Hospital, and Clinical Professor, Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Drs. Lim and Heo are in the private practice of orthodontics in Seoul. Dr. Heo is also a Clinical Professor, Department of Dentistry, College of Medicine, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. Dr. Ahn is an As...

This paper presents new international comparative evidence on the factors driving inequalities in the use of GP and specialist services in 12 EU member states. The data are taken from the 1996 wave of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). We examine two types of utilisation (the probability of a visit and the conditional number of positive visits) for two types of medical care: general...