Reviewing the Senate Intelligence Committee's newly released report, Gawande points to nearly a dozen individual examples of physicians playing a role in the CIA's interrogation and treatment of detainees.
Examples of physician-specific characteristics are medical speciality and income, and examples of patient-specific characteristics are prognosis, level of education and health beliefs [ 13].
When giving examples of physicians who communicated well, respondents pointed to those who took an active interest in their personal life.
Examples of unfair positive bias in faculty were also observed: "Sometimes you see, like examples of physicians who are kind of more biased toward patients who are of their own culture.
However, we did not find examples of physicians embedded in the business-like health care logic whose decision to turn into an entrepreneur was induced solely by intra-organizational dynamics.
Participants described several examples of physicians' indirect involvement in medical tourism generally, or stem cell tourism in particular, where the line between appropriate and inappropriate conduct was less clear.
It was an example of physician empathy, but also of identification.
This role also serves as an example of physician responsibility for health-related activities in the acommunity.
"I'm not sure you could find an example of physicians doing more harm to human beings than we have achieved in our liberal opiate prescribing," says David Clark, an anesthesiologist at Stanford.
Through the examples of computerized physician order entry, as well as the impact of alerts at the point of care on immunization rates, the delivery of evidence-based asthma care, and the follow-up of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, the following review addresses strategies for success in using these tools.
