Family visits to a biodiversity exhibit: An analysis of emotional responses during free visits and visits mediated by explainers

Free Visits

Obesity evaluation and intervention during family medicine well visits.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the extent that primary care providers assess overweight and obesity and offer treatment strategies during well visits in a family medicine setting. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of 553 consecutive patients who presented for family medicine well visits. Patient charts were reviewed for documentation of body mass index (BMI) and pat...

Visits to Registered Nurses

BACKGROUND In 2013, California passed Assembly Bill (A.B.) 2348, approving registered nurses (RNs) to dispense patient self-administered hormonal contraceptives and administer injections of hormonal contraceptives. The Family Planning, Access, Care and Treatment (Family PACT) program, which came into effect in 1997 to expand low-income, uninsured California resident access to contraceptives at ...

A Radiologist Visits Africa

vj]ja rns? standard of education and so forth. As a result I spent much time in bush Co hatching meals being prepared in mud-huts, in shanty towns looking at living sche IOns' w^h sanitary inspectors seeing conservancy schemes or malaria control trile .es> and with Ministers of Health discussing their plans. And in order to get a nativlr^Pressi?n of the pattern of disease I spent as much time s...

Follow-Up Visits in Doctor-Patient Communication: The Vietnamese Case

In a “follow-up visit”, a patient seeks medical attention for an existing health problem. Using data from the Vietnamese public hospital system, we present a more nuanced analysis of follow-ups in health communication than the one currently available. To be specific, we discriminate between “same follow-ups”, in which the doctor is the same one as in the last visit, and “different follow-ups”, ...