perceptions of first and last year nursing bachelor students about their own profession: a qualitative study    zamanzadeh v [1] , valizadeh l [2] *, nasiri kh [3]     received: 2 jul , 2013 accepted: 9 sep , 2013     abstract   background & aims: nursing has considerable progresses towards becoming professional in recent decades in comparison with previous decades. it seems that researches on ...

O rganised medicine is not giving proper attention to the disturbing presence in the profession of a universal human trait: greed. Perhaps doctors' greed is less of a problem in Britain where an estimated 70% of the doctors are generalists, and reimbursement in the main is controlled by the national health system. Not so in the United States where 70% of doctors are specialists and an open heal...

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 ...