The basic idea of a poor physician's daughter curing a sick king and claiming a husband as reward may stem from Boccaccio.
With all the indignities suffered by Helena, the lovely "poor physician's daughter" who is rejected by her husband, we're rooting for her to come out a winner.
"Facing End-of-Life Talks, Doctors Choose to Wait" (Second Opinion, Jan . 12 reports on poor physician-patient communication about the end of life until patients are nearing the end.
The poor physician from New Zealand was laughed out of many-a-meeting before it was commonly accepted that bacteria play an important role in peptic ulcer disease.
Assuming physicians as the primary information source for patients and families it is possible that poor physician knowledge translates to poor family knowledge [ 20].
Moreover, studies have documented that poor physician-patient communication leads to increased healthcare costs [ 6], unnecessary pain, and additional fear and anxiety about disease and therapy [ 7- 9].
Other factors contributing to diagnostic delay may include poor physician-patient communication, resulting in physician or patient failure to explore symptoms or obtain follow-up tests or referrals to specialists [ 16].
Suggested reasons for these poorer outcomes include poor physician compliance with CPGs, family or cultural needs, affordability and access to culturally appropriate care, education, income, housing and health literacy [ 16, 17].
For each increase of 1 in the level of severity of functional dependence, the (adjusted) probability of receiving a poor physician rating was nearly 6 times higher than that of receiving a good rating (relative risk ratio (RRR): 5.94).
The reasons for underdiagnosis of COPD include low usage of PFTs [ 21, 22], lack of awareness of COPD, poor physician adherence to guidelines [ 23], and lack of educational programs on COPD.
