The Mind Doctor

The Mind and Morality of the Doctor **

The world is occasionally shocked by the failure of physicians to act in a moral and responsible manner. During World War II, there were appalling atrocities committed in the name of nationalism by some German doctors. In 1948, the newly formed World Medical Association met in Geneva to draw up a declaration which would serve as an international code of ethics and help to impress on newly quali...

A Doctor Speaks His Mind

of this higher incidence among Negro children seems to be related to greater household exposure to sputum positive adults. In any event, the opinion that superinfection is harmless for infected children was shown not true for Negroes, who with their greater susceptibility, tend to develop progressive pulmonary tuberculosis before adolescence, as well as showing a sharp increase in incidence in ...

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Follow-Up Visits in Doctor-Patient Communication: The Vietnamese Case

In a “follow-up visit”, a patient seeks medical attention for an existing health problem. Using data from the Vietnamese public hospital system, we present a more nuanced analysis of follow-ups in health communication than the one currently available. To be specific, we discriminate between “same follow-ups”, in which the doctor is the same one as in the last visit, and “different follow-ups”, ...

The Triune Brain: Limbic Mind Mind Plastic, Emotional Mind

Problem statement: The theory discussed is revealing, as compared to studies on the human brain, the fact that he has inherited the structure and organization of three fundamental types of reptiles, ancient or primitive mammals and mammals, or recent evolved. What is very disconcerting is that nature has been able to connect with each other and establish a sort of communication between them. Ap...