[the Difference Between Doctor & Me Is That Doctor Believes]

Regular doctor, changing doctor, no doctor: does it make a difference to rural residents?

INTRODUCTION In Canada, a larger proportion of rural residents than urban residents do not have a regular physician. In addition to lacking physicians, many rural communities also have a high rate of physician turnover. In order to discover the effect of this we compared health status, lifestyles, preventative care, and perceptions of the health system among rural residents with a regular docto...

Doctor, Did You Put a Mesh on Me That Is No Longer Recommended?

The doctor is in … love.

W it like to be partnered to a physician? After more than 13 years, answering that question should be simple, since conventional wisdom states that 10,000 hours devoted to any pursuit now qualifies you as an expert. That said, I must regretfully confess I have no idea what it’s like to be the spouse of a doctor. Ray Joseph has been pursuing medicine as long as I’ve known him, so in a very real ...

who is the first mythical doctor of iran?

abstract   in this article first of all we invest the name of therita in avesta and then the frequency of this name in middle persian texts, after that introduce the first doctor in the historical books of islamic iran that some of them say he is fereidoon and some say he is jamshid. these three iranian mythical characters somehow have connections with medicine, and in order to define the first...

Call me Doctor? Confessions of a hospital philosopher.

Accustomed as many of us have become in the era of clinical bioethics to the idea of a "hospital philosopher", on reflection the historical novelty of the role is astonishing, as are its ambiguities. As a result of considering my own experience I found myself writing this miniature intellectual autobiography. In the course of this essay I raise two specific questions: what can the Western philo...