Hospital doctors' work

Doctors and Their Work

thoughtfulness and judgment; the author's experience is on almost every page, and as Mr. Carter has been in our ranks for more than half a century, and has, during that time, had excellent opportunities of forming opinions on these matters, we may consider his advice and conclusions well worth having. There is very little in the book that any of us would disagree with, for on any question about...

Work of female rural doctors.

OBJECTIVE To identify the impact of family life on the ways women practice rural medicine and the changes needed to attract women to rural practice. DESIGN Census of women rural doctors in Victoria in 2000, using a self-completed postal survey. SETTING General and specialist practice. SUBJECTS Two hundred and seventy-one female general practitioners and 31 female specialists practising in...

Early In-Hospital Mortality following Trainee Doctors' First Day at Work

BACKGROUND There is a commonly held assumption that early August is an unsafe period to be admitted to hospital in England, as newly qualified doctors start work in NHS hospitals on the first Wednesday of August. We investigate whether in-hospital mortality is higher in the week following the first Wednesday in August than in the previous week. METHODOLOGY A retrospective study in England usi...

Hours of work and fatigue in doctors.

The work of sector doctors in Leningrad.

Official pronouncements about the organisation of Soviet medical care frequently refer to the general physicians responsible for subdivisions of the area served by a policlinic. The role of these sector terapevti has been encapsulated in various phrases, among which the term "family doctor" makes the largest implicit claim. At the outset it is possible to argue that this description must be mis...