WHEN ONLY A DOCTOR WILL DO

When only a doctor will do.

When only the last one will do

An unknown positive number of items arrive at independent uniformly distributed times in the interval [0, 1] to a selector, whose task is to pick online the last one. We show that under the assumption of an adversary determining the number of items, there exists a game-theoretical equilibrium, in other words the selector and the adversary both possess optimal strategies. The probability of succ...

When do people visit a doctor?

We examine the length of time between when an individual feels sick and when he/she visits a doctor using survival analysis to capture the dynamic aspects of this behavior. If the disease is light, actions such as OTC medicine or sick leave are alternatives to visiting a clinic or a hospital immediately. The timing of the visit depends only the person's decision, not on a doctor's, so we can li...

When only the real thing will do: junior medical students' learning from real patients.

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to explore how medical students experience contacts with real patients and what they learn from them. METHODS We carried out a post hoc, single-group study in one teaching sector of a 5-year, problem-based, horizontally integrated, outcome-based and community-oriented undergraduate programme, in which students lacked clinical exposure in the pre-clerkship phase. Su...

Repository Title When Do People Visit a Doctor ?

We examine the length of time between when an individual feels sick and when he/she visits a doctor using survival analysis to capture the dynamic aspects of this behavior. If the disease is light, actions such as OTC medicine or sick leave are alternatives to visiting a clinic or a hospital immediately. The timing of the visit depends only the person’s decision, not on a doctor’s, so we can li...