More than 60 percent of adults in the United States are overweight or obese, and obese persons are more likely to be ill than those who are not. Obesity presents challenges to physicians and patients and also has a negative impact on health status. Some patients who are obese may delay medical care because of concerns about disparagement by physicians and health care staff, or fear of being wei...

followers of this noble profession devote their lives and energies for the good of their patients and in raising the profession to its highest pitch of excellence; but,unfortunately, there are some who do not follow it in the same catholic spirit. It, therefore, behoves the profession at. large, and the practitioners of the healing art in particular, to devote their entire attention to the well...

make career decisions during their training be improved? Experience elsewhere suggests that unless such support is developed to meet the specific requirements of doctors and medical students, it is unlikely to achieve all its objectives. This NICEC Briefing summarises the key findings from a research study that set out to find out exactly what these requirements were and how best they might be ...

reasonable to expect, a fairly large number of small gastrointestinal bleeds then those who were alerted about what to look for could expect to detect a few more. Aspirin prophylaxisis is only recommended to be undertaken on medical advice. Presumably most doctors giving such advice would wam the patient of possible gastrointestinal bleeding and give advice on reporting it, if it occurs. The co...

Students and teachers often express a need for an introductory text of physiology, one which is more readable than longer, standard texts, yet which will at the same time guide the beginning student into more effective use of a comprehensive treatise. This need is well satisfied by publication of the third edition of Human Physiology. Written as it is by a group of distinguished teachers and sc...

OBJECTIVES To compare the patient characteristics, clinical conditions, and short-term recidivism rates of emergency department (ED) patients who leave against medical advice (AMA) with those who leave without being seen (LWBS) or complete their ED care. METHODS All eligible patients who visited the ED between July 1, 2004, and June 30, 2005 (N = 31,252) were classified into one of four group...

BACKGROUND AND AIM DAMA is a result of patient dissatisfaction, which increases the rate of readmission, mortality, and complications. In this study, the causes and predictors of DAMA in Shahid Labbafinejad Hospital of Tehran were determined. METHODS The descriptive and analytical study was conducted in 2016 from the information of 1,168 hospitalized patients in the period of 2015 and the fir...

Objective: To understand and recognise why some patients leave the medical facility against physicians advice as it has clear significance in identifying those at risk planning interventions for them beforehand. Study Design: Exploratory Research. Setting: Department of Psychiatry, Gujranwala Medical Collage/ Teaching Hospital. Period: September 2018 to 2019. Material & Methods: The record ...

BACKGROUND Patients are often confronted with diverse medical decisions. Often lacking relevant medical knowledge, patients fail to independently make medical decisions and instead generally rely on the advice of doctors. OBJECTIVE This study investigated the characteristics of and differences in doctor-patient medical decision making on the basis of construal level theory. METHODS A total ...