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Showing 1 to 20 of 870 for “"doctors"”.
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Discrete ordinates CT organ dose simulator (DOCTORS)
… algorithms provide higher quality information to doctors. However, the exponentially increasing usage of CT has raised concerns regarding long term low-dose radiological risks.</p><p>Currently, the dose to patients is computed using Monte Carlo methods and experimental tests. In other areas of …
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Stress amongst medical doctors in the Western Cape
Numerous theories were established as to why doctors are leaving the country. A collection of stressors have presented itself and are seen as the contributing factors that lead to the outflow of doctors to other countries. Masia et al (2010) suggest that heavy workloads, after hour calls, conflicts …
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Female Doctors and Educator in Sichuan 1900-1930s
… lives of missionary and local female doctors in Sichuan, China, from 1900 to 1930s. This thesis recovers the history of initiating gendered healthcare and medical education for local women by using archival sources, missionary reports and books, and personal memoirs. In addition, this …
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Race, Subjectively -Assessed Health and Visits to Doctors
… health care in the United States. Blacks visit doctors less often than Whites although by most standard measures of health status, Blacks have poorer health than Whites. Why do Blacks visit doctors less frequently than do Whites? I develop a theoretical framework that considers Blacks and Whites …
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Doctors' perspective on obstetric ultrasound: concept, knowledge and practice
… interviews and ‘framework’ analysis, whether doctors are actively engaged in unbiased information sharing with pregnant women during their consultations. Through exploration of the literature on women’s and health professionals’ perspective on the use of obstetric ultrasound, a gap is seen in …
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Junior doctors : morale, job satisfaction, stress and their interrelationships
… and anecdote suggest that . the morale of doctors is low. Consequences of this in medicine include poor communication, faulty decision making, and poor interpersonal relationships. This works assesses the morale of pre-registration house officers (PRHOs), using the proxy measures of job …
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Trust in doctors: Is there a black-white difference?
… Americans and white Americans in trust in doctors. This study uses data from the 2002 General Social Survey and ordinary least squares regression to reexamine this issue. It was expected that blacks are less likely to trust their doctors than whites either before or after controlling for …
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Doctors' labour supply and incentives : a collection of essays
This thesis examines UK doctors’ labour supply from the intensive margin. Initially, it explores trends in average weekly hours of work using data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Next, it compares how average weekly hours of work vary over the lifecycle for doctors and compare to with other …
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Doctors of Philosophy: Therapies for a Century of Crisis
… And why do modern people seem to lack it? 'Doctors of Philosophy: Therapies for a Century of Crisis' examines the work of German-speaking psychiatrists who attempted to answer such questions over the course of the twentieth century. Despite thinkers such as Carl Jung, Ludwig Binswanger, Karl …
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Preparedness for Paediatric CPR amongst Doctors in Cape Town
… preparedness for paediatric CPR (pCPR) amongst doctors in Cape Town. The study aimed to assess the preparedness for pCPR of doctors working in Western Cape Provincial Government primary healthcare facilities (PHCFs) in Cape Town with regard to knowledge, confidence and doctors' knowledge of …
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The doctor-patient relationship: an exploration of trainee doctors’ views
Greater understanding of the ways in which medical trainees perceive the doctor-patient relationship could inform future developments in educational provision. A qualitative study was conducted, using a case study approach to explore the perceptions of postgraduate trainees in two medical …
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Company “Doctors”: Do higher academic qualifications make for “better” managers?
This thesis addresses two main questions. Firstly “Are there significant differences between the level of academic achievement (qualification) of German senior managers and their British counterparts?” Secondly if so, “why should this be so?” These two questions lead to a third, “what impact, if …
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Parent schema of the professionalism of teachers and medical doctors
… groups of practitioners: teachers and medical doctors.
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Interactional accomplishments between nurses and doctors in a medical context
… power is managed in conversations. Nurses and doctors represent asymmetrical relations and their conversations illustrate differences in the way that language creates reality in a medical context, in this case a public teaching hospital in South Africa. Nurses and doctors were recorded during …
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INCREASED COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NURSES AND DOCTORS ON AN ACUTE MEDICAL UNIT
… to increase communication between the nurses and doctors on an acute medical unit by increasing nurse attendance and participation at physician rounds.</p> <p><strong>Methodology: </strong>Surveys were a key component in the methodology of this project. Surveys were distributed to the entire RN …
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Tailor Made in India: Jaipur's Masters of Cloth, Doctors of Clothing
<p>This dissertation is about Jaipur’s tailors, making custom-crafted clothing for individual customers in a rapidly changing and globally fashion-informed India. Indian-crafted clothing and textiles are a source of pride domestically and have long been used and admired throughout the world. So how …
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The competencies required by hospital doctors to care for older adults
… older adults will now receive their care from doctors without specialist geriatric medicine training. Older adults are a distinctly heterogenous group with varying co-morbidities that can often present with atypical symptoms. This complexity can make the treatment of older adults challenging …
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First, do not speak: Errant doctors, sexual abuse, and institutional silence
This dissertation looks at the power of silence, uncovering the repressed history of physicians who sexually abuse their patients. This research is an effort to understand how institutional practices create and sustain an atmosphere of silence in which such abuses can continue unchecked, if not …
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Emergency department patients' perception of care: do doctors understand their patients?
The aim of my study is to directly compare the patient’s perceptions of care received in the emergency department to that of the attending physician’s. The aim is to give us better insight into how the patient experiences their care, with a view to improving the level of care offered. The study …
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Truvada approved as HIV PreP: are South African doctors ready? Survey measuring willingness to prescribe and attitudes, knowledge, and practises regarding HIV PrEP amongst South African based doctors
… an online survey administered to South African doctors, on their opinions on the use of Truvada as PreP. Part A deals with the survey protocol and focuses on (1)ethical issues such as approval by the University of Cape Town Research Ethics Committee, and obtaining consent, (2) method of data …
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