Finally, Groves et al. [ 6] concluded that the upper quartile of high-relative doctors may be best classified as doctors with urban practices.
Injuries were classified by doctors according to clinical criteria (Table 2).
We used location of family home (Great Britain or overseas), as reported to us by the doctors, to classify each doctor as a "home" student or "overseas" student at the time of entry to medical school.
We did not attempt to classify the doctors' specialties as they were diverse and numbers were too low to permit meaningful statistical analysis.
Doctors classified her as permanently disabled, which meant that she was no longer able to work.
There were cysts on her ovaries but these provided no cause for alarm, and her doctors classified her pregnancy as uncomplicated.
And the commission seems to have found a way around a European Court ruling which had classified periods when doctors are "on call", even if they are tucked up in bed, as working time.
While it is difficult to estimate their numbers, one study estimates that 25% (42% in rural and 15% in urban) of the individuals classified as allopathic doctors, reported no medical training [ 5].
Two other studies on difficult patients, amongst which patients with MUPS, observed that patients who were classified by their doctors as difficult, were less satisfied with their medical care than their non-difficult counterparts [ 25, 26].
