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David Oliver: The real world for NHS doctors

Doctors’ working lives, terms, and conditions aren’t generally newsworthy.Most go through their careers miles from themedia spotlight or industrial relations. Yet in England, recent stand-offs with the government over proposed new contracts have brought unaccustomed attention. We’ve seen much public support, especially for the junior doctors’ cause—but, among the reportage and the comments belo...

Do Financial Incentives Increase Doctors’ Willingness to Publish Research? – A Pilot Study of 21 Junior Doctors

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 ...

Assessing patient satisfaction with Sudanese doctors

Dear editor Patients’ satisfaction has long been consideredas an important factor when gauging healthoutcome and quality of care in both developedand developing countries (1) and constitutes asubstantial indicator of the health care quality(2). Researches have shown that satisfiedpatients are more likely to develop a goodrelationship with the health system, leading toimproving compliance, conti...

Doctors' speech and medical terminology today

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