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Estimating the Costs of Medicalization

open access: yesSocial Science & Medicine, 2010
Medicalization is the process by which non-medical problems become defined and treated as medical problems, usually as illnesses or disorders. There has been growing concern with the possibility that medicalization is driving increased health care costs.
Ateev Mehrotra, Peter Conrad
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Medical leadership and the medical student

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2011
As leadership and management are increasingly seen as a vital part of the doctor's daily repertoire, medical schools are starting to implement leadership development programmes as a routine part of the curriculum with opportunities for some students to take extended study in leadership.
Helen, O'Sullivan, Judy, McKimm
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The Other Side of Medicalization: Self-Medicalization and Self-Medication

open access: yesCulture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 2013
International audienceThe concept of medicalization has given rise to considerable discussion in the social sciences, focusing especially on the extension of medicine's jurisdiction and its hold over our bodies through the reduction of social phenomena ...
Sylvie Fainzang
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Rethinking the medical in the medical humanities

Medical Humanities, 2016
To clinicians there are a number of striking features of the ever-evolving field of the medical humanities. The first is a perception of a predominantly unidirectional relationship between medicine and the humanities, generally in terms of what the arts and humanities have to offer medicine.
Desmond, O'Neill   +6 more
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MEDICAL EDUCATION AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1952
The American Medical Association and the Federation of State Licensing Boards have had a long and fruitful partnership in the efforts to raise medical standards throughout the United States. The Association values highly and is appreciative of the support that the state boards have given to its recommendations.
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Medical Mystery, Medical Humility

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2009
“To be a good doctor, sometimes you must envision yourself as slightly stupid.” When a physician friend told us this after our 9-year-old, Grace, mysteriously got very sick, the thought was hardly ...
Gordon, Mehler, Ariel, Zwang
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The Medical Scientist and Medical Care

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1970
To the Editor. —I paused over the article by Robert W. Berliner, MD (Arch Intern Med 125 :509-511, 1970), and your associated editorial (Arch Intern Med 125 :548-549, 1970) both of which were published in the March issue. I fully agree with Dr. Berliner when he implies that medical science has recently enjoyed a period of carefree adolescence and ...
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THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND MEDICAL PREPAREDNESS

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1941
The part of the medical profession in the National Defense Program is an important one. Without health, participants in industrial production and members of the armed forces become liabilities rather than assets. The American workman loses on an average eight work days a year from illness, the aggregate number of such days so lost reaching the ...
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