The Country Physician

Diary of a Canadian country physician: Jonathan Woolverton (1811-1883).

THE WOOLVERTON name has a long history in England, and several variant spellings are recorded in the Domesday book. In 1682 Charles Woolverton, a Staffordshire Quaker, migrated from Dorchester, England, to America. He was Jonathan's greatgreat-grandfather. Jonathan's father, Dennis, came to The Forty' with his family from New Jersey in 1798, a few years after the original influx of United Empir...

New Role, New Country: introducing US physician assistants to Scotland

This paper draws from research commissioned by the Scottish Executive Health Department (SEHD). It provides a case study in the introduction of a new health care worker role into an already well established and "mature" workforce configuration It assesses the role of US style physician assistants (PAs), as a precursor to planned "piloting" of the PA role within the National Health Service (NHS)...

Dr William Brownrigg, F.R.S.: physician, chemist and country gentleman.

Physician-Researchers' Experiences of the Consent Process in the Sociocultural Context of a Developing Country

Background: International guidelines for medical research involving human subjects maintain the primacy of informed consent while recognizing cultural diversity. Methods: This article draws on empirical data obtained from interviews with physician-researchers in teaching hospitals of Lahore, Pakistan, to identify social and cultural factors that affect the consent process for participants in re...

Transforming Training to Build the Family Physician Workforce Our Country Needs.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Affordable Care Act has spurred significant change in the US health care system, including expansion of Medicaid and private insurance coverage to millions of Americans. As a result, the need for the medical education continuum to produce a family physician workforce that is sizable enough and highly skilled is significant. These two interdependent goals have emerg...