García Márquez may not have invented magical realism, but he was its most adept practitioner, capable of mixing the transcendent and the bawdy, the whimsical and the tragic in equal proportions.
When the operation is to be performed it should be undertaken in a safe, child- friendly environment by an appropriately trained competent practitioner, capable of dealing with the complications, and using appropriate analgesia" [ 9].
While I agree with Brandon Gaudiano that Freudian excesses are part of the reason that psychotherapy is undervalued, I believe that the dichotomy is not medication or psychotherapy, but rather practitioners capable of recognizing the value and contribution of each modality.
Modern education in health professions aims at the development of reflective practitioners, capable of self-directing their professional development before and after graduation.
The recommendations of the Turkish Medical Association to improve the health standards of the Turkish population were; training the general practitioners capable of working effectively in the primary health care and restructuring the medical education on a community basis and implementing Problem-based Learning methods [ 9].
The truth is that no doctor or nurse practitioner is capable of doing everything for patients well.
Advanced practitioners are capable of measuring many more parameters designed to assess many additional aspects of cardiac structure and function and requiring more time, additional views, additional tools (intravenous contrast, maneuvers), and a higher level of qualifications and training in the acquisition and interpretation of images [ 3– 5, 9, 15, 16].
While a general or family medicine practitioner may be capable of performing the procedure, you should consider asking for a referral to or finding a urologist.
Substantial evidence shows that nurse practitioners are as capable of providing primary care as doctors and are generally more sensitive to what a patient wants and needs.
It is therefore important that general practitioners (GPs) be capable of detecting and treating MDD using evidence-based medicine and taking the particularities of the primary level of care into account.
To better accommodate for the complex care needs of frail, older people, general practitioners must be capable of easily identifying frailty in daily clinical practice, for example, by using the frailty index (FI).
