BACKGROUND There are many routes to obtaining training in dermasurgery. OBJECTIVE The objective is to discuss some considerations that may guide selection of dermasurgery training. METHODS Current training options are reviewed. RESULTS Some considerations that may guide selection of type of dermasurgery training include: (1) individual temperament; (2) the subtype of dermasurgery in which train...

Given that the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is expected to generate forces toward physician-hospital integration, this study examined an understudied, albeit important, area of costs incurred in physician-hospital integration. Such costs were analyzed through 24 semi-structured interviews with physicians and hospital administrators in a multiple-case, indu...

PURPOSE Given the importance of partnership in improving health care outcomes among children, there is a substantial need to understand better what partnership means to parents and physicians. The goal of this study was to develop a partnership survey that was based on parents' and pediatricians' opinions about the key concepts of partnership. METHODS Parents of patients visiting an affluent ...

Recently, public criticism has focused on the lack of diversity among Supreme Court clerks. Various explanations have been given for the relatively homogenous status of clerks, and proposals have been raised to remedy the situation. However, while scholars and critics have focused on the disadvantages to women and minorities who are shut out from the coveted role of Supreme Court clerk, little ...

UNLABELLED The need for subspecialisation in radiology and the relationship of general and subspecialist radiologists is very diverse in different regions of the world according to the reports presented at the ESR International Summit, organised by the ESR during the European Congress of Radiology in March 2015 in Vienna. The International Summit is held once a year by the ESR and its national ...

Provider/consumer racial and gender issues Many who practice in an urban clinic setting or in a teaching institution are very familiar with the statistics we have heard and the problems of health care disparities rooted in the racial or ethnic differences of our patient population. For the large majority of pediatric dentists who are in private practice, I want to stress that we should remain k...

A review of the literature on dental auxiliaries and their utilization in the dental workforce is presented, and their future role is examined in the light of broader issues relating to changing disease patterns and service delivery. Legislative factors, productivity, quality assurance and the potential scope for dental auxiliaries in both the public sector and private practice setting are disc...

The digital and online revolution is having a profound impact on radiology journals, forcing a migration from print to online publication and altering traditional revenue streams needed to sustain the journals. The 2013 Intersociety Committee Summer Conference attendees reviewed the history of the development of radiology journals, explored the forces driving the transition from print to electr...

This paper is an exploration of a topic whose specific intrapsychic significance has remained relatively unformulated in the psychoanalytic literature. Though nannies (that is, caregivers whose job it is to care for children at home in their parents' absence) have had a ubiquitous presence among professional working women and are frequently involved in the lives of patients seen in private prac...

Unit System Unsatisfactory. After three years' experience, the London Hospital has found that the unit system, whereby specialists are induced to abandon private practice and in return for a salary to devote themselves to teaching and research, is unsatisfactory. A teacher is found to lose touch with the wider question of a patient's welfare and to concentrate too much upon the " case." The uni...