Doctors are not scientists

Gentlemen, scientists and doctors: medicine at Cambridge 1800–1940

officer of health and the failure to develop an attractive vision of nursing in the future. Telling too is the section on the rise of environmentalism and the de-regulation of personal life with the coming of the pill. For 1974 to the 1990s the account of the main health policy drama of the 1990 reforms misses out on the crucial role of fund-holding reflecting perhaps a lack of focus of the rol...

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 Scientists Really Publishing More?

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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...

How many doctors are enough?