BACKGROUND The relationship between male sex and poor performance in doctors remains unclear, with high profile studies showing conflicting results. Nevertheless, it is an important first step towards understanding the causes of poor performance in doctors. This article aims to establish the robustness of the association between male sex and poor performance in doctors, internationally and over...

Each year over 50 million humans are injured worldwide in traffic accidents (WHO). 1,200000 fatalities are registered at the same time. Everybody agrees, that we must fight against. Beside law enforcement, education, car technology and road construction a well organized rescue chain is mandatory, chain links are: Emergency call center (Europe TEL. 112), SAR system, Treatment in a competent hos...

Symptoms play a crucial part in the formulation of medical diagnoses, yet the construction and interpretation of symptom narratives is not well understood. The diagnosis of angina is largely based on symptoms, but a substantial minority of patients diagnosed with "non-cardiac" chest pain go on to have a heart attack. In this ethnographic study our aims were to understand: (1) how the patients' ...

PURPOSE Although there have been studies emphasizing the re-education of North Korean (NK) doctors for post-unification of the Korean Peninsula, study on the content and scope of such re-education has yet to be conducted. Researchers intended to set the content and scope of re-education by a comparative analysis for the scores of the preliminary examination, which is comparable to the Korean Me...

BACKGROUND The failure of high-income countries, such as Ireland, to achieve a self-sufficient medical workforce has global implications, particularly for low-income, source countries. In the past decade, Ireland has doubled the number of doctors it trains annually, but because of its failure to retain doctors, it remains heavily reliant on internationally trained doctors to staff its health sy...

This article describes my experiences as a doctor with cancer and how this has led to the formation of a new cancer organisation in Britain, BACUP (British Association of Cancer United Patientsand their families and friends). BACUP is being launched on 31 October 1985. It will provide a national cancer information service for patients, their relatives, doctors, and other health professionals. T...

this article aims to analyze the imposed war between iran and iraq from a new standpoint. here, we look at the war from the viewpoint of women who were involved in the war as nurses, doctors, or reporters and etc. they lost their homes and families, or even got armed and battled against enemy. their experiences are categorized into six concepts including dis-embedding, explosion in family struc...