Background: Residency training can render a wide variety of stressors that affect the residents-in- training’s level well-being and performance. Long hours duty in hospital together with physical mental fatigue had become acceptable as these were believed to impart toughness prepare physicians for career Medicine. This study was done identify experienced by Far Eastern University – Nicanor Reye...

What is preventive medicine? Specifically, what is the specialty of preventive medicine, and how should it best be described? The specialty of preventive medicine is poorly understood, not only by the medical profession and the general public, but even among some of its practitioners. Currently, there is no unifying, vernacular explanation of the specialty of preventive medicine, to its detrime...

Information is provided on the use and cost of inpatient services for Medicare beneficiaries discharged from participating specialty hospitals during 1985. Specialty hospitals include: psychiatric, general long-term, rehabilitation, children's, alcohol and drug, and Christian Science sanatoriums. Specialty units of short-stay hospitals are not included in the specialty hospital data presented i...