who is a good doctor? patients & physicians' perspectives.

Who Is a Good Doctor? Patients & Physicians’ Perspectives

1. Dept. of Radiology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, School of Public Health, Knowledge Utilization Research Centre (KURC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Roozbeh Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Psychosomatic Ward, Tehran University of Medical Sciences,...

What a doctor is good for.

Over the years I have served as both a preceptor and colleague for more than a dozen physician assistants and nurse practitioners. All the while I wondered: are they as good as they seem, and are doctors as indispensable as we’d like to believe? When my daughter became a physician assistant I was forced to respond. I share a small practice with six family physicians. Each of us works closely wi...

Who Is a Bilingual?

The question of who is and who is not a bilingual is more difficult to answer than it first appears. Bilingualism was long regarded as the equal mastery of two languages, a definition that still prevails in certain glossaries of linguistics. However, today's complex world requires a more exact definition and analysis of the competencies that community members require to interact with speakers o...

A Dallas doctor who spoke truth to power: three perspectives.

This internal medicine grand rounds is the first Elgin W. Ware Lectureship in Medical History (Figure (Figure11). Dr. Elgin Ware, a long-time urologist at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas and chief of urology from 1986 to 1987, has spent his entire life in Dallas: he graduated from Highland Park High School, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medic...

The good doctor: what patients want.

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...