Respondents also commented on the drug being perceived as an unnecessary medical intervention, particularly in the younger patient; concerns about enhancement falling beyond the scope of medicine's proper roles also emerged as prevalent for scenarios involving patients in all age groups.
A tailored approach is needed to ascertain individual patient preference for delivery and scope of medicine information desired so that appropriate information is provided.
This may be one reason why journals like The Lancet, JAMA, Nature, Science, and the New England Journal of Medicine, whose content encompasses the entire scope of medicine and science, are always among the journals with the highest citations, which in turn leads to high IFs.
In this respect, Mead and Bower state that "the concept of patient-centeredness can be seen as associated with a broadening of the scope of medicine from organic disease" to wider issues that impact on health (Mead and Bower 2000, 1088).
The researchers write: Our results may speak to why physicians consistently report concern over malpractice and the intense pressure to practice defensive medicine, despite evidence that the scope of defensive medicine is modest.
Study participants' statements, listed in Table 2 (see also Additional file 1), indicate that the bio-psychosocial profile of human medicine [ 29], the broad, interdisciplinary scope of academic medicine and the wide range of options for working as a doctor are key factors for the profession's appeal.
This part consisted of a short passage adapted from the book Evolution in Health and Disease (Stearns and Koella 2008) introducing the participants to evolutionary medicine, followed by nine questions asking their opinion about the scope of evolutionary medicine.
But this first crop of new factors, if their trials prove successful, demonstrate the possible scope of regenerative medicine.
"An athlete would want to look for a physician who practices the broader scope of sports medicine and has not limited his or her practice to musculoskeletal problems," Dr. Roberts added.
In the first section, we set up eight questions asking the participants about their opinion regarding the scope of evolutionary medicine.
