But holding those institutions accountable must coincide with individual efforts: Women pursuing physician-scientist careers should insist on equal treatment.
That the Government would pursue a physician for taking kickbacks should not come as a surprise; the Department of Justice has recently stepped up its enforcement of the federal Stark Law and Anti-Kickback statutes against individual physicians.
In contrast, our surveyed participants had taken active steps to pursue a physician's aid in dying in one of the few jurisdictions where it is legal all either explicitly requested aid in dying from a physician or contacted Compassion and Choices for information on the Oregon Death with Dignity Act.
One Italian physician pursuing further study in her field spent her free time with a group of five American women doctors and delighted her orientation class by sharing the slang expressions she learned, according to a report filed by program administrators that year.
For the questions they pursued, family physicians spent an average of less than 2 minutes finding an answer using traditional textbooks and journals [ 1]. compared to a study of a palmtop drug reference system where it took a group of physicians only 20 seconds to find answers to their questions [ 4].
The order also prevents the Department of Health and Human Services from pursuing sanctions against physicians who do not sign up or those who charge fees the Government finds questionable.
Ethiopia, like much of the region, continues to suffer from an ongoing 'brain drain' [1], with many Ethiopian-trained physicians pursuing specialty-training and employment abroad.
Furthermore, with an expanding number of scientists working on both sides of the fence, Goy is seeing a heightened interest in the business of medicine, with an increased number of scientists and physicians pursuing MBAs.
However, integrated medical practice centered on the patient, as is practiced by the geriatricians, can be applied by motivated family physicians pursuing continuing education.
Finally, the issue of protected time for physicians pursuing a research career is difficult given the documented shortage of health care workers in Africa [ 9].
The benefits of this, rural community based approach extends from the evidence that positive rural learning experiences may increase the number of physicians pursuing rural practices [ 3, 5, 7, 8, 10].
