also inspiring educators, able to teach patients and their families, physician peers, and the vast array of paraprofessional hospital staff about anesthesiology. As individuals who champion anesthesia patient care, clinician practitioners are astute observers of much that we do not understand. Dr. Serlin, sit on the anesthesiology stool by asking the questions about what we do not understand ab...

background: family physician plan is known as one of the most appropriate strategies to implement rural health insurance program in the form of referral system in iran. this study aims to determine the satisfaction of family physicians and service consumers and its causes of dissatisfaction in the south of iran. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was performed in kerman health ne...

Introduction of newer hypotensive agents from time to time is a pointer to the unsolved problemof the treatment of hypertension. Severe hypertension (grades III and IV) is still a challengingproblem for the physician. In the therapeutic armamentarium of hypertension somenew drugs have disappeared faster than they were introduced because of their serious hazardsor limitations. A clinician has, t...

.....in which Professor Benchie, an established super-subspeciality clinician who spends most of his time performing laboratory research, profers advice toAthena, an enthusiastic early career physician who, although she spent summers in the lab as a medical student, is just finishing a research fellowship that included a course in clinical research and wonders whether she would prefer to devote...

Duringthepast fewdecades,significantbiomedicaladvances have increased diagnostic and treatment effectiveness.Recentresearchfrompsychologyprovidesaspecialopportunitytoaddvaluetothetraditionalcornerstone ofmedicine: the patient-clinician relationship. What is it about the conversation between patient and physician that gives it therapeutic value? At the most basic level, physicians and other clin...

Physicians are called upon to teach students, residents, patients and their families in the clinical environment every day as part of clinical care. A fast-paced emergency department offers a unique set of challenges that require the physician to be an effective communicator. We present a top 10 list of ideas selected from the literature for the busy clinician to use on that next shift to impro...

Financial Disclosure(s): The author(s) have no proprietary or commercial interest in any materials discussed in this article. Financial support received from the National Eye Institute K23 Mentored Clinician Scientist Award (1K23EY019511, to J.D.S.) and a Research to Prevent Blindness “Physician Scientist” Award. Author Contributions: Conception and design: Elam, Blachley, Stein Data collection...

Paroxysmal neuralgia is relatively uncommon in children. Neuropathic orofacial pain is a challenge for the clinician, as no obvious dental pathology exists either clinically or radiographically. Dentist and physician should be able to recognize the characteristics of neuropathic pain so as to correctly diagnose these conditions hence avoid unnecessary dental intervention. This article reviews t...

also inspiring educators, able to teach patients and their families, physician peers, and the vast array of paraprofessional hospital staff about anesthesiology. As individuals who champion anesthesia patient care, clinician practitioners are astute observers of much that we do not understand. Dr. Serlin, sit on the anesthesiology stool by asking the questions about what we do not understand ab...

Background and Objective: When a child with chronic gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms presents to primary care physician or general paediatrician, the clinician is challenged differentiating between functional organic disease. there high suspicion of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), rapid referral paediatric gastroenterologist for assessment treatment will help protect against sequelae delayed di...