A requirement which means physicians need to monitor their patients' health more closely to engage in preventative medicine rather than reactive medicine.
An inability to do so — which could mean physicians not having important details, such as a patient's drug allergies, chronic illnesses or past surgeries — can mean the difference between life and death.
This means physicians are often forced into situations where they are legally required to take actions that go against the best interest of the patient's health.
The fact that there is no plausible lie detector or pain detector out there means physicians who are basically too kind can wind up in trouble, even when they mean well.
This doesn't mean physicians should drop their work just to do advocacy, but if they can occasionally show up at local events and support community prevention efforts, that'd go a long way.
The high prevalence of comorbidity and polypharmacy means physicians must be cognizant of potential adverse drug events and nonadherence.
Infection, usually not a threatening factor, was a primary cause of earthquake inpatient death in our study, which means physicians need to pay more attention to testing, preventing and treating inpatients that might have an infection.
Working in the clinic and at the bench means physician-scientists need to be particularly aware of conflicts of interest--and the appearance of them.
There were no statistically significant differences between countries with respect to mean physician age or mean practice experience.
Mean duration of disease at enrolment was 17·5 years, and mean Physician's Global Assessment score was 2·0.
