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Doctors' drinking habits and consumption of alcohol.

Alcohol consumption and drinking habits among Finnish doctors were studied as part of a survey of stress and burnout. A questionnaire containing 99 questions or groups of questions was sent to all 3496 practising doctors aged under 66 randomly selected from the registry of the Finnish Medical Association. Altogether 2671 doctors (76%) responded; this sample was representative of the Finnish med...

Habits and attitudes of Malaysian military doctors towards smoking.

TOBACCO smoking is rapidly growing in third world countries (The Malay Mail, 1979) including .Malaysia as evidenced by the increase in the volume of cigarette sales of 26 million pounds valued at 551 million ringgit in 1977 (Information Malaysia, 1978179) compared to 16.25 million pounds valued at 249 .million ringgit in 1970 (Information Malaysia, 1975176). The military population is also pres...

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Smoking habits and attitudes among doctors in a Malaysian hospital.

A study of the smoking habits and attitudes toward smoking among 120 doctors at the Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia was conducted between May to August 1991. Eighteen percent of the doctors were smokers, 13% ex-smokers and 69% had never smoked. All the smokers were male and all except one smoked only cigarettes. Three of the 32 female doctors were ex-smokers. Nineteen of the 21 smokers only ...

Professionalism for future humanistic doctors

Dear editor Clinical environments encounter is an important part of studying medicine (1). Patient contact as an integral part of medical education occurs in various formats in the clinical settings (2, 3). During clinical training, medical students may experience high levels of stress, and some may not deal with it well. The abruptness of students’ transition to the clinical setting generated ...