Abstract
The paper discusses how Jones' (2001) article is an ideal illustration of patients as consumers who make use of the Internet and the subsequent role played by doctors. The writer relates that his own view of the issue is that doctors have not changed their approach to the patient encounter but currently, as a result of the Internet, have many more tools available to provide advice and to assess their patients. The paper looks at the issue discussed - patients with erectile dysfunction and their use of Viagra - and how it can be a matter of life and death. The paper points out that what has changed from traditional practice is that doctors are no longer merely focusing on physical symptoms and patient assessment but are evaluating the knowledge that has been acquired by the patient.

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"Jones' (2001) article is an ideal illustration of patients as consumers who make use of the Internet and the subsequent role played by doctors. My own view of the issue is that doctors have not changed their approach to the patient encounter but currently, as a result of the Internet, have many more tools available to provide advice and to assess their patients. The issue discussed - patients with erectile dysfunction and their use of Viagra - can be a matter of life and death. What has changed from traditional practice is that doctors are no longer merely focusing on..."

Tags:doctors, patients, internet

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This paper is a report from a medical supply company regarding the responsibility of physicians who work in close association with pharmaceutical companies to put the well being of their patients at the forefront of their professional work. The paper states, that whilst cooperation between doctors and pharmaceutical companies is essential for the development of new treatments, the doctor's prime consideration is, and must always be, the well being of his patient. The writer states that there have been cases where doctors have put their association with a pharmaceutical company before the good of their patients but, in the vast majority of cases, the exact opposite is true.

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"There have been exceptions to the above, where physicians have, in the opinion of their peers, overstepped their boundaries and represented the medical suppliers' interest more than their patients or the value of their science. A recent case, involving Dr. Martin Leon of Columbia, was particularly egregious. Dr. Leon revealed evidence from a clinical trial prior to its 'unveiling' date, which caused a significant movement in the stocks of several medical device companies. The response of the medical community was immediate and severe. Dr. Leon was suspended from editorial boards of the Journal of the American Cardiology Society and the New England Journal of Medicine for at least five years (Wood 2007). Dr. Leon's reputation as a clinical trials clinical investigator and participant was therefore permanently disadvantaged."

Tags:doctors, pharmaceutical, medicine, research, clinical, FDA

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This paper analyzes the current social and economic status of immigrant engineers and doctors in Canada. According to the paper, data is drawn from a 2007 study. The paper also draws upon popular news items that underscore the problem. The paper also considers why competent immigrant physicians and engineers consistently overlooked when it comes to employment opportunities.

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"This paper analyzes the current social and economic status of immigrant engineers and doctors in Canada. The paper draws heavily from a 2007 study carried out by Monica Boyd and by Grant Schellenberger; the paper also draws upon popular news items that underscore the problem. In the second part of the essay, time will be devoted to illuminating why things are as they are; in other words, why are competent physicians and engineers consistently overlooked when it comes to employment opportunities in the labour market? The paper suggests that two possible solutions exist: the..."

Tags:economic, status, doctors

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This paper examines the pressures and conflicts faced by doctors and nurses regarding their work hours and time spent with family. First, the paper notes the shortages in doctors and nurses health care facilities. Then it shows how the current solution to this problem is to require doctors and nurses to work harder and longer. Next, the paper discusses how residents become habituated to 80-hour work weeks at the expense of family. Additionally, the paper addresses how stress at work for doctors and nurses may impact the family. The paper concludes by stating that physicians and nurses can engage in appropriate self-care such as eating and sleeping as healthfully as possible, commiserating with colleagues, taking time to laugh to diffuse a tension-ridden situation, and knowing when they have had 'too much.'

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"While medical professionals may advise their patients to have an appropriate work and life balance, they may feel that this advice does not apply to them: a recent study of young doctors-in-training conducted by Johns Hopkins University found that residents, "set themselves up for burnout by accepting, even embracing, what they believed would be a temporary imbalance between the personal and professional aspects of their lives" (Chen 2009, p.1). Although some residents take comfort in the fact that their 80-hour work weeks are only temporary, this work-life imbalance often became a pattern. "The ones who are happier...are the ones who have held on to one or two things and have said, 'I'm not just another resident. I play the guitar, I run races, or I go home to family.' They don't do these things to the same extent as they did before residency, but they do them enough to maintain a sense of self" the authors of the Hopkins study found (Chen 2009, p.1). These physicians' practice and quality of care did not suffer, but was enhanced, by outside pursuits. But old habits in the profession die hard and many residents are indoctrinated into the workaholic manifesto."

Tags:patients, family life, residency, workaholic

Abstract
The paper discusses the dependent and independent variables of this study, and hypothesizes that while doctors begin working at Malaysian public hospitals because of their desire to make money and help individuals, there are other reasons needed to make sure that they remain there. The paper then explores the trends pertaining to the motivation and compensation of employees and focuses on Schein's career anchors as the conceptual framework for this study. The paper also outlines the methodology of the proposed study that includes the data collection procedure, the sampling procedure, the study's validity, reliability, strengths and weaknesses and a discussion of ethical considerations.

Outline:
Introduction, Variables, and Hypothesis
Conceptual Framework and Brief Review of the Literature
Methodology

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"There are a lot of significant trends when it comes to the motivation and compensation of employees. Much of this has come about because big business has made a determination that money is not the only thing that employees are looking for. Instead of only wanting money, these employees are very motivated by a lot of different things. In the past most employers just assumed that their employees just wanted more money. They would do any job and they would cheerfully do it forever, as long as raises and bonuses were coming along periodically (Buford, Bedeian, & Lindner, 1995).
"The employer, in most cases, just thought that money was the only thing that mattered at all to employees (Backer, 1973). Eventually, though, employers started to realize that praising employees made them happier, and having a casual day every now and then made employees feel more relaxed (Bowen & Radhakrishna, 1991). Employers also started noticing that their employees felt passionately about issues such as their vacation time or their health insurance, and that many of them preferred pay-for-performance ways of making money, such as commission, depending on what type of work they were involved in. "

Tags:employees, management, compensation, career, anchors

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This paper summarizes and reviews the book "Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans" by Vivian Spitz. The paper highlights the main points of Spitz's book about Nazi war crimes and the Holocaust and expands on topics such as why the Western World and Germany allowed Hitler to commit the atrocities and explains why historical events, no matter how gruesome must be chronicled. The author also stresses that Spitz's view point that cruelty in the name of science and hate crimes should not be tolerated.

Outline:
Lesson #1: Help of Silent Bystanders
Lesson #2: Freedom of the Press
Lesson #3: Science and Politics
Lesson #4: Cruelty in the Name of Science
Lesson # 5: Hate Crimes

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"The first great lesson that should have been learned from Spitz goes a bit beyond the literal pages of her book. It comes from the heart, after an alert reader plows through this book. This is the lesson the world seemed to have learned and must never forget: an accounting of how and why the Nazis were allowed to seize control of the German people so totally and thoroughly. While the Western world - and people in Germany who could have done more - watched in stunned silence for so long - or in some cases, turned a blind eye to the truth - Hitler turned a nation into a killing machine, using Jews, Gypsies and other minorities as scapegoats."

Tags:holocaust nazis WWII, hate crimes, science

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This paper discusses the rules that are relevant in a relationship between a doctor and a patient. As the doctor is the recipient of considerable trust on the patient's part within a short period of time the rules are very different from those that relate to other social relationships. The paper also includes details of a study carried out that describes four patterns of doctor-patient relationship: paternalistic, consumeristic, default, and mutuality. The writer concludes that doctors have an indispensable role to play and they should perform their duties skillfully and tactfully, and above all, ethically in the best interest of the patient, to create a positive reputation for themselves and to strengthen that society places in them.

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''For the doctor patient relationship to be most effective it is very important that communication between the two be very transparent. Basically the consultation is a process whereby information is exchanged between the two, and the more transparent the exchange of information, the more effective and result oriented the consultation will be. To get a better understanding of this process we can refer to the research done in this regard by Stewart and Roter who have described four patterns of doctor patient relationship: paternalistic, consumeristic, default, and mutuality. The paternalistic approach refers to the doctor centred approach whereby he takes all the decisions and virtually imposes on the patient to follow his instructions. The consumeristic approach relates to a situation when the patient is dominating and gets through with his way of getting things done with the doctor. When there is no consensus between the doctor and patient, the default pattern is said to have set in. Where the treatment is done with the involvement of the patient, it is in keeping with the mutuality approach."

Tags:communication, consumer, humanity, expectation

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"This study will present a critical analysis of "The Nazi Doctors", by Robert Jay Lifton. The sub-title of the book, "Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide," describes the author's viewpoint and intentions.

The main theme of the book is, indeed, the mind of the Nazi doctor, in general, who committed the most inhumane crimes against helpless victims in the name of "science" or "medicine." From documents available at conferences on the Holocaust, the author "began to realize the extraordinary importance of doctors in general for the Nazi killing project".

The author recognized that he was dealing not only with barely speakable horrors, but also that he was running the risk, with his psychological study, of giving the impression that such ghastly evil could somehow be "understood.""

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This paper discusses the issue of whether doctors should tell the truth to their patients. First, the paper explains the American Medical Association's (AMA) principles of medical ethics regarding the issue. Next, the paper discusses the line between the truth and a lie and to what extent a doctor can withhold information or soften the truth. The paper then presents a case study that examines the issue and discusses the writer's personal opinion on the matter.

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"With medical advances happening at lightening speed, choices like this will become more and more common. Truth is always the best option, but waking someone up to tell him/her that he/she is dying and that death will happen quickly seems inhumane to me. No matter that they are in some ways making the decision for her, they should also be shielding her from the pain of her choices by not waking her up. Patients would obviously prefer the autonomy of making their own medical decisions; this is just sometimes not possible. At least it is not possible without causing further stress and pain and anguish. Caregivers need to also think about compassion and sensitivity."

Tags:decision, lie, information, caregiver, compassion

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This paper is an analysis of a brief video clip entitled "The Lucky One," in which a doctor questions a patient regarding her history of melanoma. The conversation--both verbal and non-verbal--is intensively analyzed, and the implications are explained.

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"The conversation between a patient and his or her doctor can be an emotional mine field. Patients' fears and rationalizations are expressed both verbally and in non-verbal language such as gestures, involuntary movements and other body language such as posture and facial expression. Gill notes that 'When people are ill they often attempt to make sense of what they are experiencing by constructing their own attributions for their problems. They formulate explanations for why their health problems occur.' "

Tags:conversation analysis, patient, doctor, melanoma, cancer, non-verbal, gesture, posture, cue