Colombian doctors are killed as their neutrality is ignored

How good are doctors as drug prescribers?

The training of doctors in therapeutics has created interesting discussions internationally. A survey of senior hospital pharmacists currently practising throughout West Malaysia was embarked on during a recent postgraduate seminar. About sixty per cent said prescribing errors were common amongst doctors. Sixteen per cent of the prescribing errors were potentially serious. Most of the time erro...

When doctors might kill their patients: foreseeing is not necessarily the same as intending.

Resident doctors' understanding of their roles as clinical teachers.

INTRODUCTION Limited data illuminate how resident doctors view their important roles as teachers, supervisors and role models. Analysing qualitative data about resident teachers' self-perceptions can offer helpful insights. METHODS One year after a randomised trial of a residents-as-teachers curriculum at a university medical centre, we invited its 23 resident participants to participate in s...

Doctors and their discontents.

Patients and Their Doctors