A mixture of economists, doctors and psychologists with a history of research into well-being, happiness and the power of positive thinking.
If not for a mixture of Saudi doctors, social workers and advocates for AIDS patients who have pushed the government to tackle the disease more openly and encouraged patients to fight for their rights, Feisal's situation would be even more dire.
The students were an odd mixture of aspiring doctors and lawyers trying for straight As in their exams, and hardboiled "bad kids" who'd been kicked out of their previous schools and spent class hours getting high in the park.
Each specialty group had a mixture of junior and senior doctors.
All three specialties were represented, (15 oncologists; 16 palliative physicians; 15 GPs) and each group had a mixture of senior and junior doctors.
The first two years are spent mainly in lectures, the third and fourth years on rotation in hospitals, and the fifth is spent consolidating the first four years with a mixture of both or shadowing the doctor whose job you're taking over (most students apply for and get their first job while in their final year of study, most often at the hospital where you do your rotation).
Most barefoot doctors practiced a mixture of basic western medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
The 20 doctors were a mixture of non-trainees (4), basic trainees (5), fellows (10) and specialists (1) in family medicine, with a range of years of experience (3 to more than 30 years).
Interactions between urban doctors and their patients had a mixture of instrumental and socioemotional communications, while interactions between rural doctors and their patients tended to be highly interpersonal, often involving considerable socioemotional communication and relationship-building.
Another parent, a doctor married to another doctor in Northumberland, describes a mixture of short days and then having to collect her daughter for lunch and then take her back again.
