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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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Medical Populism

Social Science & Medicine, 2019
Medical emergencies are staple features of today's 24/7 culture of breaking news. As politics becomes increasingly stylised, audiences fragmented, and established knowledge claims contested, health crises have become even more vulnerable to politicisation. We offer the vocabulary of medical populism to make sense of this phenomenon.
Gideon Lasco, Nicole Curato
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Medical Noncompliance

The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 1981
Increasingly recognized as a major medical health problem, non-compliant patient behavior remains one of the least understood and most frustrating phenomena facing today's physicians. Although no single characteristic of behavior adequately defines the potential non-complier, a variety of factors raises the index of physician suspicion.
S, Zisook, E, Gammon
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Medical Robotics

IEEE Pulse, 2011
Information and communication technology (ICT) and mechatronics play a basic role in medical robotics and computer-aided therapy. In the last three decades, in fact, ICT technology has strongly entered the health-care field, bringing in new techniques to support therapy and rehabilitation.
FERRIGNO, GIANCARLO   +6 more
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Medical Intellectuals: Resisting Medical Orientalism

Journal of Medical Humanities, 2004
In this paper, we propose analogies between medical discourse and Edward Said's "Orientalism." Medical discourse, like Orientalism, tends to favor institutional interests and can be similarly dehumanizing in its reductionism, textual representations, and construction of its subjects. To resist Orientalism, Said recommends that critics--"intellectuals"--
Felice, Aull, Bradley, Lewis
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New Medications and Medication Changes

Orthopaedic Nursing, 2008
When nurses in orthopaedic settings are educating a patient about the medications, they address not just those medications related to the current orthopaedic problem, but all medications the patient is using. During these education sessions, nurses will often be asked about new medications, changes in medications, or medication recalls the patient may ...
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Medical Discovery and Medical Education

New England Journal of Medicine, 1968
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, whose tangled life personified so many of his aphorisms, observed that "it is easier to know man in general than it is to know one man in particular." Medicine seems t...
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Medical Students and Medical School

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1982
ON A BRIGHT morning in late August in the early 1980s, a senior member of a medical school faculty attended an orientation session being held for incoming freshmen medical students. It made him feel good when he looked around the large lecture hall and saw the eager, alert, enthusiastic, and excited men and women from various walks of life and a ...
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