An Old-Time Physician and Adventurer

Thomas Dover: Physician and Merchant Adventurer

Physician Rating Websites: an Analysis of Physician Evaluation and Physician Perception

Background: The goal of this study was to evaluate current physician ratings websites (PRWs) to determine whichfactors correlated to higher physician scores and evaluate physician perspective of PRWs.Methods: This study evaluated two popular websites, Healthgrades.com and Vitals.com, to gather information onpracticing physician members of the American Shoulder and Elbow Society database. A surv...

New steam from an old cauldron--the physician-supply debate.

The debate about the physician workforce is back. Just yesterday, it seems, the conventional wisdom was a confident prediction that we faced a worrisome surplus of physicians. 1-3 But today, a swelling chorus of experts contends that we may face an equally worrisome shortage of physicians. 4,5 The shift has occurred suddenly enough to inflict cognitive whiplash on policymakers and physicians wh...

Hospital-physician informed consent: new use for an old doctrine.

The relationship between hospitals and physicians has changed dramatically in recent years because of the increasingly competitive healthcare environment. Many healthcare executives have struggled to find a balance between collaborating and competing with the new breed of physicians. A relationship familiar to the healthcare leader may provide a useful framework for effectively addressing physi...

Questions of life: diary of an old physician

improvements in health statistics during the nineteenth century were to be explained by improvements in nutrition rather than by medical advances or other factors. Modern knowledge certainly confirms the inadequacy of some of the early records. Thus the diet thought to be representative for peasants in sixteenth-century Poland contains no vitamin C. The probable explanation is found in another ...