Should doctors spurn Wikipedia?

Should doctors wear white coats?

OBJECTIVE To compare the views of doctors and patients on whether doctors should wear white coats and to determine what shapes their views. METHODS A questionnaire study of 400 patients and 86 doctors was performed. RESULTS All 86 of the doctors' questionnaires were included in the analysis but only 276 of the patients were able to complete a questionnaire. Significantly more patients (56%)...

Should doctors engage with counterterrorism?

Terrorists’ tactics have changed, and security services have had to change theirs in response. We are seeing fewer highly trained extremists carrying out carefully planned attacks and more lone actions by vulnerable people incited by internet propaganda. Last month’s attacks on Westminster Bridge and in Paris bear this out. But does this mean that doctors should change how they behave? The gove...

Doctors should admit their mistakes.

"Doctors are frightened of malpractice" a comment recently made on his colleagues by a former director of the United States National Cancer Institute [1]. In Britain a remorseless increase in the number of actions against doctors by patients and their relatives and the cost of such actions has led to the government taking over responsibility for compensation for medical negligence [2]. In North...

Doctors should not evaluate competence to drive.

How much should doctors tell their patients?

The impact of the electronic media and interactive technology today is phenomenal and is changing our world in profound ways, in the realms of science, space, sports, travel, entertainment and communication, to name a few. The information age is squarely upon the human race, and thriving inexorably on its voracious appetite for knowledge. Never has the term "information on one's finger tips" be...