While the use of textbooks and colleagues varied little across physician groups, there was considerable variation with respect to international medical journals and the Cochrane Library (Figure 2).
Recommendations for breast cancer screening in the hypothetical case vignettes varied little across physician specialties based on the chronological age of patients; however, OBG were significantly more likely than IM and FP to recommend mammography in patients with limited life expectancy from coexisting comorbidities.
A little-known physician, Dr. Mass wrote what AIDS chroniclers regard as the first article on the emergence of -- well, of something unusual and terrible, but exactly what was not clear at the time.
Now a little-known physician has stepped into this tinderbox environment to take the mantle — indeed, the very instruments — of the man many abortion rights advocates regard as a martyr.
However, we know little about physicians' experience of and attitude to these reported rationing dilemmas in general practice [ 16, 18].
Further, the database contains very little information regarding physician behavior, training, or patient instructions, making it impossible to investigate or control for physician-level factors, including physician tendencies to prescribe more or less insulin per visit.
Lastly, there is little differentiation by physician's speciality, except for anaesthesiologists and intensivists and emergency physicians, who were more likely to do everything possible to prolong life, and cancer specialists who were more likely to intensify the alleviation of symptoms.
A study in 2010 showed that these reforms had little impact on physician job satisfaction, and the article concluded that it seemed likely that physician job satisfaction was based more on internal values than external changes [ 8].
"Where are these little beasts?" one physician wrote.
Perhaps we would be better served as a nation by spending a little more in physician education on the proper use of the drugs that are available.
