MEDICAL PRACTICE IN PERU.

[Medical and scientific research in Peru: newfields].

El contexto mundial actual caracterizado por grandes transformaciones obedece en gran medida a la generación de conocimiento científico y avances tecnológicos. Resulta cada vez más evidente la existencia de tres factores imprescindibles para el desarrollo de sociedades prosperas y sostenibles; la ciencia, la tecnología y la innovación. Esta triada impacta positivamente no solo en el logro de de...

[Problems in medical prescriptions for the elderly in Peru].

Al buscar información en las bases nacionales, solo se logró ubicar dos publicaciones relacionadas. La primera, realizada en el Hospital Almenara Essalud entre el 2002-2004, evaluó la calidad de la prescripción de 456 medicamentos en 76 pacientes mayores de 65 años catalogados como frágiles. Los medicamentos que presentaron mayor número de problemas fueron los que actúan a nivel cardiovascular ...

Emergencies in Medical Practice

Medical Practice in Palestine

The first point that impresses the medical man in Palestine is the question of languages. At the last census 110 less than fifteen different mother tongues had to be put down for a group of less than 100 patients and staff, and one never could manage to get through a morning in out-patients without using at least six different languages. In medical work one comes into close touch with doctors f...

Psychiatry in Medical Practice

the concepts and information it presents. Its great weakness lies in the lack of critical appraisal of the methodology of some of the data quoted. Wide-eyed speculation based on single cases are quoted with as much authority as the data of well-controlled experimental studies. Considering the fact that at least 65 per cent of patients coming to the average physician have disease syndromes initi...