The Medical Profession in Denmark.

The chiropractic profession in Denmark 2010–2014: a descriptive report

BACKGROUND The chiropractic profession has been well established in Denmark for several decades with state authorization, partial reimbursement by the state and a formal academic education. Biennial systematic data collections among all chiropractors and clinics have been performed since 2010 in order to provide exact information on the profession to The Danish Chiropractic Association (DCA). I...

Greed and the medical profession.

O rganised medicine is not giving proper attention to the disturbing presence in the profession of a universal human trait: greed. Perhaps doctors' greed is less of a problem in Britain where an estimated 70% of the doctors are generalists, and reimbursement in the main is controlled by the national health system. Not so in the United States where 70% of doctors are specialists and an open heal...

Violence against the medical profession

Homoeopathy and the medical profession

PHILLIP A. NICHOLLS, Homoeopathy and the medical profession, Beckenham, Croom Helm, 1988, 8vo, pp. 298, £27.50. There are several useful historical accounts of homoeopathy in America, but very little has been published on the British story. Nicholls's book will thus become a stock item for courses on medicine in nineteenthand twentieth-century Britain. After discussing the relation between the ...

Managing competition in the medical profession.

The medical profession always has been viewed as more than a business. Patients often view their physician as a counselor or friend, in whom they entrust their health and to whom they often reveal the most private matters. As with other relationships involving trust (e.g., attorney-client and priest-penitent), the law even recognizes a special privilege for communications between doctors and pa...