Medical practice plans

Are Recovery Plans Improving with Practice?

We asked two basic questions about endangered species recovery plans: (1) Have recovery plans improved over the last decade? (2) Are important features of recovery plans biased toward plants or animals? We answer these questions in the context of a large national study aimed at statistically summarizing key features of recovery plans and how those plans use science. In addition, we asked if the...

Survivorship care plans in research and practice.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends the use of survivorship care plans (SCPs) for all cancer survivors. Developing useful SCPs requires understanding what survivors and their providers need and how SCPs can be implemented in practice. Published studies investigating the perspectives of stakeholders (survivors, primary care providers, and oncology providers) were reviewed regarding the co...

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...