OBJECTIVE To describe the oral health status of the elderly priests in Bangkok. MATERIAL AND METHOD The elderly priests aged 60 and over in Bangkok were clinically examined at Priest Hospital using methods recommended by the World Health Organization. Information on oral health behavior was obtained via questionnaires. RESULTS A totally of 714 elderly aged 60 years and above (mean = 69.5 +/...

BACKGROUND Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) has been commonly diagnosed in priests. The reason may be their lifestyles and rules, where they have only two meals a day and they cannot select their food but must eat what is provided by the givers. OBJECTIVE To study the risk factors of PUD in the priests MATERIAL AND METHOD This study was a retrospective study of 266 priests who underwent gastroduo...

I will never forget the first night I stood alone beside the operating table as the only surgeon in the room. I was beginning my fourth year of residency. Two patients from the same car wreck arrived simultaneously. Both were unstable. Both required urgent laparotomy. The sickest patient went to OR 9 with the attending surgeon. The other patient went with me to OR 6. The preliminaries were the ...

Many historians have used the placebo effect, alongside remission and self-limiting ailments, as a catch-all explanation for apparent cures in the past, whether at the hands of doctors or saints, but they have rarely exhibited much awareness of its ubiquity and potential scale or considered what behaviour and beliefs promote it. Since the business of historians lies mainly with beliefs and the ...