Do continuum beliefs reduce schizophrenia stigma? Effects of a laboratory intervention on behavioral and self-reported stigma [PDF]
, 2017 Background and objectives Correlational research shows that belief in a continuum of psychiatric problems predicts decreased public stigma. However, the correlational findings fail to inform the stigma reduction prospects of manipulating continuum ...
Shanks, Lindsay N. +2 more
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Combat and Warfare in the Early Paleolithic and Medically Unexplained Musculo-Facial Pain in the 21st Century War Veterns and Active-Duty Military Personnel [PDF]
, 2005 In a series of recent articles, we suggest that family dentists, military dentists and psychiatrists with expertise in posttraumatic stress disorder (especially in the Veterans Health Administration) are likely to see an increased number of patients ...
Bernstein, Dr. David M. +4 more
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Response regarding Existential Issues in Sexual Medicine. The relation between death anxiety and hypersexuality [PDF]
, 2018 The recent article published by Dr Watter, “Existential Issues in Sexual Medicine: The Relation Between Death Anxiety and Hypersexuality,” deals with an interesting issue: the unique relation between death and ...
Burri, Andrea +4 more
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Optimality of no-fault medical liability systems [PDF]
This paper considers a model of defensive medicine where doctors are imperfect agents of insured patients. A national insurer subsidises both curative and preventive medical care consumed by risk averse patients.
Kao, Tina, Vaithianathan, Rhema
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Medico-Legal Litigation : the clinical contractual nature of the Obstetric Anaesthetist-Patient relationship [PDF]
, 2014 Once the hand-maiden of obstetrics, obstetric anaesthesia, now a fully fledged sub-speciality today provides indispensable multi-faceted services mainly but not solely to the peripartum obstetric patient. Be it in routine as well as acute obstetric work,
Buttigieg, Gabrielle +1 more
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Identity change and the human dissection experience over the first year of medical training [PDF]
, 2005 The aim of this study is to explore identity change in medical students over their first year of medical training, particularly in relation to their experience of human dissection. Each of our four participants completed two repertory grids at the end of
Abu-Hijelh +44 more
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To fail is human: remediating remediation in medical education. [PDF]
, 2017 IntroductionRemediating failing medical learners has traditionally been a craft activity responding to individual learner and remediator circumstances.
Chou, Calvin L +2 more
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Türk Kardiyoloji Derneği Arşivi, 2017 Objective: Cardiologists participate in the diagnosis and interventional treatment of numerous high-risk patients. The goal of this study was to investigate how the current malpractice system in Turkey influences cardiologists' diagnostic and ...
Ayhan Olcay +9 more
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Defensive medicine and diagnostic testing [PDF]
Diagnosis, 2014 Abstract Defensive medicine often involves the excessive ordering of diagnostic tests. Constantly aware of the risk of malpractice liability, physicians turn to diagnostic tests with the goal of reducing the likelihood of error. Findings reported in literature suggest that medical malpractice contributes significantly to the increased ...
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Turkish Journal of Family PracticeObjective: To examine the attitude of family physicians practicing at primary care units in İstanbul regarding defensive medicine practices and their effect on providing driving license health report provisions and the frequency of dispatches. Methods:
Süleyman Kartal +2 more
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