The best physician

A program director’s perspective: advanced positions versus physician-only positions - What’s the best for my program?

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Is physician-assisted death in anyone's best interest? No.

YES I will make 2 arguments to support the idea that assisted death is in the best interests of some patients: death can sometimes be in a patient’s best interest; and capable patients are well positioned to determine when death is in their best interests. I will then argue that physicians should have a role in assisted death by reversing the premise of this debate and arguing that nobody’s int...

Rebuttal: Is physician-assisted death in anyone's best interest? Yes.

YES Dr St Godard argues1 that physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia (PASVE; I will avoid any suggestion of a euphemism) are not in anyone’s interest. Ultimately, his arguments rest on a subjective definition of compassion, and a personal view about the role of medicine and suffering. I respect his arguments, but I do not feel that any of them justify a societal ban on PASVE. Compa...

Best English story by a family physician: premature.

The role of physician in ethnopharmacological investigations

The essence of ethnopharmacology is interdisciplinary research that usually involves traditional healers, botanists, chemists and pharmacologists. The role of researchers from pertaining disciplines is well defined in ethnopharmacological investigations. However, the exact role of a physician has not yet been distinctly clear in ethnopharmacological investigations. Historical data shows that di...