background: health and security is one of component of human rights in society and the government to ensure it is up to society. from the perspective of the world health organization, family medicine is heart of global efforts to improve service quality, reduce costs, enhance effectiveness and equality of health care system. but without the participation of stakeholders and social change in beh...

background: the aim of this study was to study the knowledge and attitude of the pediatricians and family physicians on the dental counterpart, i.e. pediatric dentistry and the objective of this study were to determine what can improve the knowledge and attitude on pediatric dentistry and suggest certain methodologies to more participation of physicians in improving oral health. materials and m...

Background. Nonverbal behaviors have a significant impact on patients during consultations. This study was undertaken to find out the attitudes and preferences of the patients regarding nonverbal communication during consultations with physicians, in a tertiary care hospital. Methods. A questionnaire based cross-sectional study was carried out at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakis...

background: in the last decades cancer has become one of the important causes of death in iran  .this study examined perspective of a group of iranian health professionals, patients and patients’ family members regarding their view on disclosure of cancer information at a university hospital in tehran, iran. methods: the method of study was qualitative semi-structured focused group content anal...

This month in Canadian Family Physician, we attempt to answer the question, “Should older family physicians retire?” Racine puts forward many good reasons why he thinks they should (page 22).1 Dickie thinks the opposite, emphasizing their contribution and their experience (page 23).2 Even before responding to this question, we should first understand what is meant by older physicians and by ret...

OBJECTIVES Little research has focused on preventing harm from errors that occur in primary care. We studied mitigation of patient harm by analysing error reports from family physicians' offices. METHODS The data for this analysis come from reports of testing process errors identified by family physicians and their office staff in eight practices in the American Academy of Family Physicians N...

Introduction The Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) measure developed and validated in primary care settings and used for general practitioner appraisal is a 10-item instrument used by patients to assess doctors' empathy. The aim of this study is to investigate the validity of the CARE measure in assessing medical students' empathy during a formative family medicine clinical test. Metho...