INTRODUCTION This study explores the scope of practice of Obstetrics and Gynaecology specialists in Italy, Belgium and England, in light of the growth of professional and patient mobility within the EU which has raised concerns about a lack of standardisation of medical speciality practice and training. METHODS Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 29 obstetricians and gy...

“obligation”, “dette” and “droit personnel” are three important and correlative legal terms in civil law that have been introduce into persian legal literature with improper translation. the failure to distinguish them from common terms in islamic jurisprudence like “dein” and “eltezam” have caused conceptual confusion between special terms of two great legal systems: civil law and islamic law....

This paper studies the effects of changes in states’ scope practice (SOP) laws for advanced registered nurses (APRNs) on individual labor supply decisions. Restrictive SOP impose costs and other barriers to that may affect these Using survey data APRNs, we analyze employment nursing, work hours, part-time status, multiple job holding, self-employment, wages, migration. Results show level restri...

Objective: To clarify the scope of practice on rural islands of Okinawa. Patient: A 59-year-old man presented to our clinic with shortness of breath. He was intubated due to acute respiratory failure caused by severe pneumonia. We could not transfer him owing to bad weather, and had to continue patient care in the clinic for more than 24 hours. Discussion: In remote regions, rural physicians ma...

atrial fibrillation (af) is a commonly encountered arrhythmia in our daily practice. every year a huge bulk of data is published about different management strategies, new antiarrhythmic drugs, anticoagulation protocols and ablation procedures in these patients. in this review article, we discuss different management strategies and new antiarrhythmic drugs as well as those commonly used. we wil...

this commentary follows up on an editorial by eyal and colleagues in which these authors discuss the implications of the emergence of non-physician clinicians (npcs) on the health labour market for the education of medical doctors. we generally agree with those authors and we want to stress the importance of clarifying the terminology to describe these practitioners and of defining more formall...