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Teaching ethics to medical students.
While few would deny that some attention must be given to ethical issues as part of a medical student's education it has never been clear how this might be best achieved. And at the present time those who are battling with this problem have a further dilemma. On the one hand, the numbers of ethical issues that face the medical profession are increasing at a frightening rate, ranging as they do ...
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The term white coat hypertension (WCH) was initially introduced in 1984 to describe patients who had hypertension in the office but were normotensive with ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM). At the time, WCH was simply a phenomenon with nothing known about its possible effect on the development of cardiovascular (CV) disease. Three decades later, it is apparent that hypertension in the...
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There is arguably no less understood or more intriguing problem in hypertension that the "white coat" condition, the standard concept of which is significantly blood pressure reading obtained by medical personnel of authoritative standing than that obtained by more junior and less authoritative personnel and by the patients themselves. Using hospital-initiated ambulatory blood pressure monitori...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000000298