Viewpoint: ‘Doctor, Doctor, have you elicited my expectations?’

Have you had your mammogram, doctor?

"Doctor, my thumb hurts".

How should you treat these common causes of nontraumatic thumb pain? Use this evidence-based review as a clinical decision-making guide.

One moment doctor! Have you forgotten hand hygiene?

Hospital infection prevention indices are improving, but reducing infection rates further requires professional culture change T he " Five Moments For Hand Hygiene " 1 promoted by the World Health Organization are logical and uncomplicated, but some health care workers nevertheless fi nd them confusing. Nurses are more likely to understand the fi ve moments because of repeated exposure to them ...

Elementary, my dear Doctor Watson.

Many readers will recognize these as the first words ever transmitted by telephone. The Watson on the other end of the line was Thomas A. Watson, Bell’s assistant. Over a century later, we may soon be hearing these words again, this time at the hospital. But this time the Watson on the other end may not be a person but a machine: IBM’s Watson, a state-of-the-art computer system capable of answe...

Do you really care doctor?

'The secret of care of the patient is in caring for the patient.'