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Today, most doctors given the responsibility for making high stakes decisions of clinical
competence agree that oral examinations following an unobserved long case clinical …

Background: Patients' expectations and the role they play in medical care are increasingly
considered to be important, but the factors that influence these expectations have not been …

Today, most doctors given the responsibility for making high stakes decisions of clinical
competence agree that oral examinations following an unobserved long case clinical …

Dr Irene Lum brings up the interesting subject of medically unexplained symptoms1—a
burden to doctors and patients alike. This subject underlines a curious paradox: when …

Understanding and Managing Patient Expectations Page 1 Doctor-Patient Understanding and
Managing Patient Expectations Here's why this is critical to treatment compliance and positive …

In “Practicing 'Check the Box'Medicine,” Alpert and Francis 1 lament the use of protocols for
initiating care in the emergency department, referring to it as “shotgun” medicine. They point …

385 well-publicized examples just extracted about 100 million between them. The
professional medical organizations and government-affiliated regulators, too numerous to …

Editorial More than 25 years ago, Lawrence L. Weed proposed three solutions for"
conditions that are frustrating in every phase of medical action." 1 Weed's solutions included …

We live in a society that is highly concerned with what makes relationships succeed, where
dating services, advice columns, and marriage counselors all tell us about the importance of …