R oman had been in the hospital for 7 days, and no one had visited him. He had been diagnosed with meta-static lung cancer after losing pounds from an already thin frame. He had not been very active since retirement, but the cancer left him even more sedentary, and he had to move into a nursing home. He was admitted to us on this occasion with pneumonia. Because the infection was located in his...

abstract introduction: the amount of waiting time is an indicator of level of access to hospital services and can be measured as one of the indicators of the effectiveness of hospital performance. this study aimed to determine the average waiting time in shahid rahnamoon and afshar clinics. methods: this descriptive, analytical, cross – sectional study was conducted with a simple size of 264 pa...

That more and more of the general practitioner's time is being taken up by the demands of mental and emotional illness, has become almost a cliche of medical thinking. But what does it mean? If we try to look at the prevalence of mental illness in general practice, to ask, 'How much is "more and more"?' we find only contradictions and confusion.