This thesis aims to explain how Confucian physicians constructed the medical thoughts and practice. A Confucian physician is supposed to be a well-educated gentleman and a master of the medical classics. From the 12th century on, Confucian physicians gradually became a new ident…
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The past few decades have witnessed an increased focus on the importance of oral health on the social, psychological and developmental well-being of children. Although effective and advanced dental prevention measures and treatment options are increasingly available, dental deca…
“If you build it they will come” is the general attitude of many medical and non-medical health administrators in regard to physicians' attitudes about the actual usage of medical information systems (MIS). But how can we achieve confidence that “they will come”, i.e., physician…
The purpose of this study is to investigate factors affecting diffusion of an Electronic Medical Record in the Kuwait Health Care Delivery System (HCDS) from the physicians' perspective. A mixed methodology design including quantitative and qualitative measures was used. The qua…
Background. A significant proportion of the physician and nurse workforce in the US is constituted of professionals from other countries. These health professionals play an important role in the US health care system, but emigration can place significant strains on their home co…
This dissertation explores how western physicians have constructed, expressed, and debated the concept of poison from roughly 1250 to 1600, especially as it relates to food, medicine, and disease. Medical treatises on poison clearly illustrate how changing medical cultures impac…
In Saudi Arabia, genetic practice is growing due to high consanguinity and incidence of genetic diseases in the Saudi population. Nurses and physicians must be competent in providing genetic services and aware of their implications in clinical practice. The purpose of this study…
Background: In 2006, Sudan was not considered as a country with a critical shortage of human resources for health (HRH). Nevertheless, 12 years later, with the substantial changes in Sudan socioeconomic environment, the HRH situation looks less promising. Physicians' density was…
Electronic detailing (e-detailing) has been introduced in the last few years by the pharmaceutical industry as a new communication channel through which to promote pharmaceutical products to physicians. E-detailing means using digital technology: internet, video conferencing and…
Background. The international migration of physicians is a global public health problem and a priority issue for international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Lebanon is a source country with the highest emigratio…
Targeting of the narrow therapeutic index (NTI) drug warfarin is very challenging for patients and physicians alike. That's because subtherapeutic warfarin level can cause recurrence of the thromboembolic events while supratherapeutic level may significantly raise the bleeding r…
The use of tobacco products ruins the health of millions of people around the world. On average, tobacco users die nearly seven years earlier than non-tobacco users. n1 Cigarette smoking is a particular concern in the developing countries of the Middle East and Gulf Cooperation …
Skilled and motivated health workers are important to delivering quality healthcare. Ensuring their availability and equitable distribution is a key priority. Low- and middle-income countries are experiencing challenges in relation to the maternal health workforce. This situatio…
Blood is a critically important human tissue, and for over a century, blood transfusions have saved the lives of countless patients. However, blood is often in short supply, and the cost of screening donated blood for immune compatibility and an ever-increasing number of blood-b…
Past studies have reported the overwhelming cost of medical malpractice, not only in the value of the payout but also in the cost of liability insurance and the secondary cost of defensive medicine (Berlin, 2017; Reschovsky & Saiontz-Martinez, 2018; Katz, 2019). This is an ongoi…
The regulation and integration of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) with orthodox medicine is rapidly gaining interest in medical and policy circles. However, the empirical investigation of CAM is yet to match the growing interest in the field, with a dearth of reliab…
This thesis spans the first half of the 20th Century, charting the progress and challenges of the voluntary hospital system in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. The voluntary hospitals were the key sites of acute medical care for the working-classes from their foundations in the l…
This book aims to help identify pre-existing adaptive traits and positive perspectives in resident trainees, while challenging those that are less adaptive by building a formal curriculum for medical education that focuses on the humanistic aspects of medicine. Humanism in medic…
This book is the first to dissect the factors contributing to burnout that impact women physicians and seeks to appropriately address these issues. The book begins by establishing the differences in epidemiology between female physicians and their male counterparts, including ra…
