It had been more than two weeks and I could not seem to shake off the tiredness and joint pain I felt. Being a wife, mother of three children, and physician, I was always on the run. Taking care of patients and teaching residents and medical students at work, and then coming home to cook dinner and teach and take care of our children, was my routine. I had done this for many years without much ...

It is well known that countries with strong primary care achieve better health outcomes at lower costs. Therefore, the effort of World Health Organization in promoting primary care as a basic principal of successful health care system is an ongoing process. Although Croatia was recognized as a country with primary care orientation due to the development of health centers and introduction of spe...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are reported to be associated with increased bleeding tendency. While findings of recent studies explain a lot about the pathophysiology of this side-effect, there is a general tendency to discontinue SSRIs as harmful medications. We report two instances of dose-dependent relations between sertraline and bleeding tendency. Bleeding diathesis was a...

in this article, we have intended to analyze the translation of cultural elements from persian into french by relying on a corpus that addresses directly the iranian culture: “guest of mom”, by houshang moradi kermani, translated by maribel bahia. we have chosen this corpus because we could find a lot of instances of humanitarian love and gentleness as reflected in the portrayal of iranian char...