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

Professionalism for future humanistic doctors

Dear editor Clinical environments encounter is an important part of studying medicine (1). Patient contact as an integral part of medical education occurs in various formats in the clinical settings (2, 3). During clinical training, medical students may experience high levels of stress, and some may not deal with it well. The abruptness of students’ transition to the clinical setting generated ...

Assessing patient satisfaction with Sudanese doctors

Dear editor Patients’ satisfaction has long been consideredas an important factor when gauging healthoutcome and quality of care in both developedand developing countries (1) and constitutes asubstantial indicator of the health care quality(2). Researches have shown that satisfiedpatients are more likely to develop a goodrelationship with the health system, leading toimproving compliance, conti...

Doctors' speech and medical terminology today

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Doctors Afield

Between 1952 and 1969, the New England Journal of Medicine carried a column describing physicians who were leaders in their medical fields and well known for their contributions in the arts, politics, business, and religion, to name a few. With the similar theme in mind, the Program for Humanities in Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine amassed a collection of short autobiographie...