Doctors and witchdoctors: which doctors are which? I.

Doctors and witchdoctors: which doctors are which? I.

Which future for doctors in China?

936 www.thelancet.com Vol 382 September 14, 2013 student options, intercalated degrees, and an active undergraduate research society. Data need to be compared with institutions that promote student research less actively. McLean and colleagues report that only 38% of respondents were concerned by long-term debt. The data were collected from a Scottish university where Scottish residents are exe...

Which doctors and with what problems contact a specialist service for doctors? A cross sectional investigation

BACKGROUND In the United Kingdom, specialist treatment and intervention services for doctors are underdeveloped. The MedNet programme, created in 1997 and funded by the London Deanery, aims to fill this gap by providing a self-referral, face-to-face, psychotherapeutic assessment service for doctors in London and South-East England. MedNet was designed to be a low-threshold service, targeting do...

Are doctors risk takers?

OBJECTIVE Risk taking affects human behavior in general and decisions in medicine in particular. We used game theory to assess physicians' risk-taking tendencies. METHODS Physicians were recruited to the study by advertisement. It was explained that they would receive a sum of money for correct prediction of the flipping of a coin. They could try to sell their opportunity to flip the coin for...

Are doctors created equal ?

There is broad consensus among policy makers and consumer groups that greater transparency in healthcare will improve the quality and costs of care delivered. In recent years several government-led transparency initiatives have focused on healthcare institutes like hospitals (Jha et al. 2005, Harris and Buntin 2008). Up to now patients still have very little means of discerning the quality of p...