The meaningful use of health information technologies is being heralded as means to engage patients and families in the management of their own healthcare. Patient engagement and their wellbeing can be enhanced by improving communication between the patient and his/her physician. In spite of the widespread use of social media in social communication, their role in complementing physician-patien...

OBJECTIVE The shortage of physicians after a major disaster is a crucial issue. We aimed to evaluate the characteristics of physicians who left affected areas following the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. METHODS Using data from a physician census conducted in 2010 (pre-disaster) and 2012 (post-disaster), we evalua...

Many nations are indebted to Avicenna (Ibn-Sina) for their scientific progressions and civilization. Many countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe have honored Avicenna, the great Persian scientist, by depicting his vignette on their postage stamps. The symbolic value of Avicenna has been chosen to commemorate scientific occasions, achievements and anniversaries, which represents the ul...

Robert Bridges OM is the only medical graduate (he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1900) to have held the office of Poet Laureate. Educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and St Bartholomew's Hospital he practised as a casualty physician at his teaching hospital (where he made a series of highly critical remarks of the Victorian medical establish...

There is great allure in the concept of using qualified health care providers to assist radiologists and radiation oncologists, increasing efficiency and possibly even improving patient care delivery. However, physician services are most commonly reimbursed under a system that is resource based, and the physician work and practice expense components of reimbursement for existing procedure codes...

background: the family physician program and referral system considered as one of the important programs of country’s health that has been implemented since 2005.considerng that health is a spontaneous phenomenon and information in this regard should be given to individuals, the present study was conducted to determine the relationship between knowledge and attitudes of rural people with inform...

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medical ethics is a realm where four important subjects of philosophy, medicine, theology and law are covered. physicians and philosophers cooperation in this area will have great efficiency in the respective ethical rules formation. in addition to respect the autonomy of the patient, physician's obligation is to ensure that the medical intervention has benefit for the patient and the harm is m...