David M. Sherman, Tending Animals In The Global Village: A Guide To International Veterinary Medicine, 495 pages Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins ISBN 0-683-18051-7, reviewed by Corrie Brown, DVM, PhD.

F. Gil, DVM, PhD, R. Latorre, DVM, PhD, Department of Anatomy, Veterinary Faculty, M. A. Carrión, DVM, C. Aguirre, DVM, I. Ruíz, DVM, I. Ayala, DVM, PhD, Large Animal Medicine and Surgery Service, Clinical Veterinary Hospital, University of Murcia, Spain M. Alemán, DVM, PhD, Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences, University of California, Davis, USA M. A. Rivero, DVM, PhD, Department...

A growing number of physicians study complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Limited data are available on perspectives of physicians with dual training in conventional medicine and CAM, on issues of communication and collaboration with CAM practitioners (CAMPs). Questionnaires were administered to primary care physicians employed in the largest health maintenance organization (HMO) in Is...

background:  geographic and doctor-to-doctor variations in care are a focus of quality and safety efforts in medicine. this study addresses factors associated with variation in the rate of operative treatment of de quervain tendinopathy.   methods: we used a database including all patient encounters at 2 large medical centers, to study the experience of 10 hand surgeons and 1 physiatrist workin...

Mark Akenside was one of a number of eighteenth-century men who rose to prominence as both a poet and a doctor. He was born in 1721 in Newcastle upon Tyne, and in 1738 attended Edinburgh University, initially to prepare for becoming a Presbyterian clergyman, but switching after a year to the study of medicine. During his student career, he wrote a long philosophical poem, The pleasures of imagi...

* Doctor of Medicine by the Medicine College of USP. Assistant Doctor of the HCFMUSP’s Otorhinolaryngology Department Otology Group. * Doctor of Nephrology by the Medicine College of USP. Assistant Doctor of the Nephrology Department of the Clinical Hospital of São Paulo. *** Free Professor for the Medicine College of USP. Titular Professor of the Otorhinolaryngology Discipline of the Medicine ...

In the present experiment, we examined slowing of the individual key presses of a familiar keying sequence by four different versions of a concurrent tone counting task. This was done to determine whether the same cognitive processor that has previously been assumed by the dual processor model (DPM) to initiate familiar keying sequences and assist in their execution, is involved also in the cen...