Two studies show that different culturally based concepts of interpersonal power have distinct implications for information processing. People with a vertical individualist (VI) cultural orientation view power in personalized terms (power is for gaining status over and recognition by others), whereas people with a horizontal collectivist (HC) cultural orientation view power in socialized terms ...

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005, assigns each Turkish citizen to a specific state-employed family physician, who offers a wide range ...

The miracle of modem medicine is not so much its efficacy as its popularity in the face of the lack of it. Of course it is true that the amazing technical feats of twenty-first-century pharmacologists, immunologists and molecular biologists legitimately dazzle us today, but the vast majority of a doctor's time is spent treating patients with self-limiting conditions perhaps best left alone, or ...