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The Role of the Physician in the Grief Process

Clinical Pediatrics, 1981
A child's death is a particularly painful experience for the family. The grief process involves all family members, and although it is individualized many reactions and concerns are predictable. With knowledge of the grief process, the patient's physician may be of great assistance to the family during their time of need.
M, Lorenzen, L, Smith
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The Role of Compulsiveness in the Normal Physician

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1985
This article presents some observations from a workshop setting about the role of compulsiveness in the normal physician. Case examples illustrate the effect of this character trait on the professional, personal, and family life of the typical physician.
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The Role of Physicians in Hospital Production

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1986
We use a translog production function approach to examine the effects of medical staff physicians on hospital production, and how their effects differ in teaching and nonteaching hospitals. In teaching hospitals, we also focus on the special role of medical residents. We find that physicians have a strong positive influence on the productivity of other
Jensen, Gail A, Morrisey, Michael A
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Role of the Physician in Childhood Obesity

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 2004
To suggest the role of the practicing physician in examining and treating childhood obesity. How should obesity be determined at clinical examination? Is there an obesity epidemic? What is the likely influence of obesity upon current and future health?
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A NEW ROLE FOR THE SCHOOL PHYSICIAN

Pediatrics, 1972
In the last decade the practicing pediatrician has encountered an ever-increasing number of children who are referred to him on the basis of having shown varied degrees of difficulty in learning material presented to them in school. They come to the pediatrician's office because parents and schools are increasingly aware of the importance of education,
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The Role of the Physician as a Patient Advocate

New England Journal of Medicine, 1977
IN Western civilization the physician has assumed many roles. At present, these roles are being critically re-examined. The purpose of this paper is to identify the functions for which the physician is indispensable. Such an identification could have great importance for medical education.
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The Family Physician as a Role Player

Postgraduate Medicine, 1964
The phenomenon of role playing or transference in the patient-physician relationship is discussed. A physician should attempt to understand the meaning of the part he plays in the patient's mind, utilizing this when it is helpful and exposing its unreality when it is harmful to the future of his relationship with the patient.
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The Physician's Role in Cost Containment

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1979
To the Editor.— The article by Stephen J. Dresnick, MD, and colleagues, "The Physician's Role in the Cost-Containment Problem" (241:1606, 1979), is a timely one. There has been an explosion of laboratory tests that have been developed and are requested by physicians.
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The Physician’s Role in Tuberculosis Prevention

Clinics in Chest Medicine, 1989
Tuberculosis is not only treatable but preventable as well. A number of options exist for reducing the transmission of tubercle bacilli. Practitioners are in a position to intervene directly on behalf of their patients and indirectly by promptly reporting infectious patients to local public health authorities.
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The Physician's Primary Role

Chest, 1985
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