A physician-patient relationship is established as a result of a contract, express or implied, that the doctor will treat the patient with proper professional skill. 3 But it does not require the formalities of a contract—a contract can be implied in fact, which means it “arises from the acts and conduct of the parties, it being implied from the facts and circumstances that there was a mutual i...

background and objectives: effective nurse-physician communication is essential for provision of high quality clinical care. research into nurse-physician communication is a new field in iran, and the importance of the issue calls for further investigation. in response to this necessity, this study aimed to assess nurses’ perception of nurse-physician communication in teaching hospitals affilia...

P EDIATRICIANS PLAY A key role in injury and disease prevention by providing anticipatory guidance to minimize risk in a child’s everyday environment. It is the pediatrician’s duty to raise awareness of all health risks and guide caretakers to prevent and mitigate these risks. Screening for child and adolescent access to firearms is an essential component of injury prevention. More than 128 000...

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During the last two decades or so, there has been a struggle over the patient's role in medical decision-making that is often characterized as a conflict between autonomy and health, between the values of the patient and the values of the physician. Seeking to curtail physician dominance, many have advocated an ideal of greater patient control.',' Others question this ideal because it fails to ...