Background: More and more children are experiencing what have been termed adverse childhood experiences. An individual's response to these stressful events determines whether or not they considered traumatic – whereby the experience is so overwhelming that it engulfs their coping mechanisms leading lasting negative effects on wellbeing. Notably, trauma now recognised as a global health epidemic...

Informed decision making in medicine, defined as basing one's decision on the best current medical evidence, requires both informed physicians and informed patients. In cancer screening, however, studies document that these prerequisites are not yet met. Many physicians do not know or understand the medical evidence behind screening tests, do not adequately counsel (asymptomatic) people on scre...

background the surgical informed consent (sic) is a comprehensive process that establishes an informationbased agreement between the patient and his doctor to undertake a clearly outlined medical or surgical intervention. it is neither a casual formality nor a casually signed piece of paper. the present study was designed to audit the current knowledge and attitudes of doctors towards sic at a ...