Doctor and Workman

Paul Workman: Drugging the Cancer Genome

What challenges exist, even for cancer prevention approaches that have been shown to be effective? Cancer prevention, in the form of chemoprevention, has had major successes, demonstrated in Phase III randomized clinical trials (RCTs). The Breast Cancer Prevention Trial showed that tamoxifen reduced the risk of breast cancer in women at high risk by Gail model criteria by 50%, even more for est...

Doctor Shoja-ad-Din Sheikholeslamzadeh and his Achievements

Doctor Shoja-ad-Din Sheikholeslamzadeh (also known as Dr. Sheikh) (1931-2014) was an outstanding orthopedic surgeon. He is credited for the establishment of the Iranian Association of Rehabilitation, Shafa Yahyaian Hospital as an Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Center, the Social Welfare Organization, Iran’s emergency dispatch center (115) and many other major projects that led to the upgrading o...

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Greetings and Politeness in Doctor-Client Encounters in Southwestern Nigeria

Doctors and clients sometimes experience interactive clashes during hospital meetings in South-western Nigerian hospitals because of their divergent culture-constrained orientation to politeness cues. The goal of this paper is to unpack the discursive elements that characterize interactive confluence and divergence in selected consultative encounters in the hospitals. The findings indicate that...

"Very truly and undisturbedly yours": Joseph Workman and a verdict of malpractice against John Galbraith Hyde.

As superintendent of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum in Toronto from 1853 to 1875, Dr. Joseph Workman came in contact with most of the medical practitioners in Ontario. One of these was Dr. John Galbraith Hyde of Stratford, a fellow Ulsterman with whom Workman appears to have corresponded regularly. Hyde emigrated to Canada from County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1841, having received his license to prac...