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OBJECTIVE To assess students' perceptions regarding merits and demerits of selecting medicine as a profession. METHOD A cross sectional survey based on convenience sampling was done, where 300 students of both sexes were included, 150 from a medical profession and 150 from a non-medical profession. They were asked to fill a structured, pretested questionnaire, and the results were analyzed by...

PHILLIP A. NICHOLLS, Homoeopathy and the medical profession, Beckenham, Croom Helm, 1988, 8vo, pp. 298, £27.50. There are several useful historical accounts of homoeopathy in America, but very little has been published on the British story. Nicholls's book will thus become a stock item for courses on medicine in nineteenthand twentieth-century Britain. After discussing the relation between the ...

Doctors performing brain surgery by flashlight during a blackout necessitated by a Japanese air raid. The austerity of the surroundings is evident in the lack of medical equipment and supplies. Just as the wounded soldier moves along a pathway from injury, to triage, to care, to recovery, military physicians need to travel along their own pathway of understanding themselves as both physician an...