UNLABELLED Pediatric patients with well-controlled OSA present few difficulties for routine dental treatment. However, patients with untreated or undiagnosed OSA can present the dental practitioner with multiple issues and challenges. Dental professionals have a unique doctor-patient relationship that affords them a role in recognizing sleep disorders by exploring the history of patients who ar...

A number of medical and public policies are recommended in the revised statement on surrogate motherhood by the Committee on Ethics of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), 1 which expands and replaces the original committee opinion of 1983. Some of the implications with respect to the physician-patient relationship have been laid out in the updated statement, whereas ...

PROFESSIONAL liability insurance has become society's chief agency for the distribution of the cost of malpractice by the medical profession. It is quite natural that the medical practitioner, conscious of the possibility of a ruinous malpractice judgment, should seek the protection of insurance. Several factors indicate that this segment of the insurance industry will grow rapidly in the futur...

Mutual trust and relationship between doctors and patients is an important factor of treatment plan. Changing trends in medical field does affect this relationship. This article reviews the basic code of conduct for every medical practitioner.

The present study investigated the experiences of users of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) using a qualitative approach. In-depth interviews were conducted with 11 frequent users and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Results indicated that the patient-practitioner relationship and explanatory frameworks provided by CAM were perceived as important compon...

introduction: the e xecution of composed educational programs for general practitioners is one of the most common methods of continuing medical education. this research project aims to evaluate one of these programs. methods: for this purpose, a pre- and post-test design was developed. the subjects consisted of 45 participants. they were tested (by a 76 mcq knowledge test) in two stages: before...

OBJECTIVE The risk of being disciplined in connection with a complaint case causes distress to most general practitioners. The present study examined the characteristics of complaint cases resulting in disciplinary action. MATERIAL AND METHODS The Danish Patients' Complaints Board's decisions concerning general practice in 2007 were examined. Information on the motives for complaining, as wel...

Shared medical appointments, whereby patients with similar conditions consult their practitioner together, alleviate pressure on the health system and provide an instant support network for patient. Why not make them virtual?

Neville asks whether society might benefit if general practitioners were routinely informed by the courts when a patient of theirs had been convicted on drug charges. Four professionals respond to his suggestion. R. Gillon, an ethicist, rejects the proposal as potentially damaging to the physician patient relationship while offering little or no benefit to patients or society. J. Havard, Secret...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Patient education is an important component of foot health management for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The content and strategies for delivery require investigation in relation to the patients' needs. This study explores patients' experiences of foot health education, to inform how the patients' needs could be identified in clinical practice and inform effecti...