We described the demographic profile of the patient sample, the frequency distributions of responses to the eleven core doctor-patient communication and confidence items (Q1 to Q11) that related to the elements required by the GMC for revalidation, and the rates of missing or spoilt responses to these items.
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"Hence, they are more likely to better understand the conditions under which their fellow core workers — doctors and nurses — will function best," she wrote in an e-mail.
Montross makes us aware of the profound and unavoidable dilemma at the core of doctoring: physicians must place themselves at the midpoint between "excessive emotional involvement with patients and a complete lack of empathy".
At the core of every doctor's training is the internship, that first year of residency that begins just a few weeks after all the pomp and circumstance and lighthearted celebration of medical school graduation.
Another doctor (core training year 1, CT1) explained how she used the device to get "the answer to a question" instead of bothering "senior colleagues".
While doctors are only one component of any health care workforce, a strong core of medical doctors is necessary in any system to provide high level clinical care and research, and to participate as health care leaders and educators.
The new guide is based on the GMC's core guidance for doctors, Good medical practice.
The attempt by Phill Kline, the attorney general of Kansas, to seize women's and girls' private medical records ostensibly to obtain evidence of alleged crimes committed against them (editorial, Feb. 28) is an unparalleled attack on medical records privacy, and hits the very core of the doctor-patient relationship.
Today, while that nugget of human interaction and the human element is still there, we've got so much else to deal with that is extraneous to our core work as doctors.
