Common doctors

Doctors, detectives, and common sense.

Mma Ramotswe, only begetter and proprietrix of the No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Botswana’s only private detective agency for the problems of ladies (and others), rarely had cause to consult her general practitioner. This doctor was called Dr Leonard Modisapodi, a man of modest tastes and quiet demeanour, who lived in a small house just off the Gaborone end of the Tlokweng Road. Mma Ramotswe a...

Doctors' and intern doctors' knowledge about patients' ionizing radiation exposure doses during common radiological examinations.

PURPOSE To investigate the level of doctors' and intern doctors' knowledge about patients' radiation exposure doses during common radiological examinations. MATERIALS AND METHODS A questionnaire listing the radiation doses of routine radiological diagnostic procedures was administered to 177 doctors and intern doctors. We asked them to find the equivalent doses of radiation for common radiolo...

Doctors Need To Know About Ascorbic Acid and Common Cold

Dykes and Meier mention the double blind study by Dahlberg, Engel, and Rydin 16 of 2,525 Swedish soldiers in a camp in northern Sweden during 90 days in 1941, and say that no differences were found in either the incidence or the duration of colds. The as-corbic-acid subjects (1266) received an average of 90 mg per day, and the control subjects (1259) received a placebo: Examination of the table...

dyspepsia: a common riddle in practice, both for patients and doctors!

0

Do Financial Incentives Increase Doctors’ Willingness to Publish Research? – A Pilot Study of 21 Junior Doctors