May-June 2012 To the Editor: In the SeptemberOctober 2011 issue, Daniel Groll addresses the question of what health care providers can know about patients’ interests (“What Health Care Providers Know”). He offers helpful refinements to my claim in Patient, Heal Thyself (Oxford, 2008) that generally health providers cannot know what serves patient interests. I am honored that a careful student o...

For me the month of February is about relationships— celebrating those we love on Valentine’s Day and, for many, honouring our relationships with family members on Family Day. This leads me to reflect on the relationships I have with my patients and how important they are to the work we do together to improve their health and well-being. As in our personal relationships, the relationship we hav...

We found an inverse relation between physical aggression by patients and physician staffing--when more physicians were available, physical aggression decreased. Episodes of nonphysical aggression increased with higher levels of psychiatrist staffing, but were not related to general physician staffing.

BACKGROUND Physician co-management, representing joint participation in the planning, decision-making, and delivery of care, is often cited in association with coordination of care. Yet little is known about how physicians manage tasks and how their management style impacts patient outcomes. OBJECTIVES To describe physician practice style using breast cancer as a model. We characterize correl...

s:6941:"Background: Consent (satisfaction) of patient is effective in criminal responsibility of physician and his/her compurgation. Consent in word means agreement or permission. Before discussion about the effect of patient consent or his/her parents in medical responsibility, there is a question that “if victim (patient) accepted crime against himself with free will all its consequences, is ...