HEALTH OFFICERS AND PRIVATE PRACTICE.

Public and private practice: a balancing act for health staff.

Attempts to reform the health care sector in Africa have frequently failed to respond to the aspirations of staff concerning remuneration and working conditions. Salaries are often inadequate and may be paid late, and health workers try to solve their financial problems in a variety of ways. In some instances, support is provided by churches or families. Incomes may be supplemented through educ...

CoMMuNITY PRIVATE PRACTICE CouNCIlloR

Transition to private practice.

f you are a regular reader of this section of the journal, you know that I am a cognitive therapist. You are aware, as well, that I have applied I this present-oriented model to aid the adjustment of patients diagnosed with cancer. My initial work in this area was accomplished at the Hollings Cancer Center of the Medical University of South Carolina, working alongside an enlightened oncologist....

Occupational therapists in private practice.

Although increasing numbers of occupational therapists are choosing to work in private practice, little data exist describing this sector of the profession. In the present study, experienced occupational therapists were asked about their moves into private practice, including (a) their motivation, (b) their preparation, and (c) their perceptions of the move's risks and benefits before and after...

Anticoagulant therapy in private practice.

THE DISCOVERY of heparin by McClean in 1916' and the identification of bishydroxycoumerin (Dicumarol) by Link and his co-workers in 1934 as the agent responsible for sweet clover disease in cattle,2 stimulated studies of the clinical use of anticoagulant therapy. The excellent work of Jorpes,3 Zilliacus,4 Barker5" 6 of the Mayo Clinic, and Wright7'8 of New York, and others,9' 10, n has crystall...