Doctors to tradesmen.

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

Quaternary Prevention, an Answer of Family Doctors to Overmedicalization

In response to the questioning of Health Policy and Management (HPAM) by colleagues on the role of rank and file family physicians in the same journal, the author, a family physician in Belgium, is trying to highlight the complexity and depth of the work of his colleagues and their contribution to the understanding of the organization and economy of healthcare. It addresses, in particular, the ...

Monumental efforts: perspiring professionals, conspiring tradesmen … inspiring you?

489 March 2015 P page through this month’s issue of AnESthESioLogy for “The Monuments Men: in the history of Anesthesia, too,” an engaging historical article by Professor Luca Borghi of Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, italy.1 The author recounts how a sculptured bust of American anesthesia pioneer horace Wells was concealed during the nazi occupation of Paris. As the article’s title sugge...

Becoming none but tradesmen: lies, deception and psychotic patients.

Is there ever any reason for a doctor to lie to a patient? In this paper, we critically review the literature on lying to patients and challenge the common notion that while lying is unacceptable, a related entity--'benevolent deception' is defensible. Further, we outline a rare circumstance when treating psychotic patients where lying to the patient is justified. This circumstance is illustrat...

Doctors' attitudes to organ donation.

BACKGROUND There is an increasing need for organs for transplantation purposes. Knowledge and attitudes among the medical team may affect the donation process. When respiration and cardiac activity are being sustained by artificial means, Norwegian law requires angiographic evidence of cessation of cerebral circulation as well as clinical examination before an organ donation can be carried out....