The physician's inability to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to the patient due to the physician's disability. Common causes include alcohol and drug abuse, mental illness, physical disability, and senility
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Physician Incentive Plans -- ethics : On the take : how America's complicity with big business can endanger your health / Jerome P. Kassirer
Physician-Patient Reations : A clinician's guide to integrative oncology : what you should be talking about with cancer patients and why / Kylie O'Brien, Avni Sali
Truthful revelation of information, specifically when the information disclosed is likely to be psychologically painful ("bad news") to the recipient (e.g., revelation to a patient or a patient's family of the patient's DIAGNOSIS or PROGNOSIS) or embarrassing to the teller (e.g., revelation of medical errors)
Business management of medical, dental and veterinary practices that may include capital financing, utilization management, and arrangement of capitation agreements with other parties
Physician practice patterns -- Australia. : Assessment of rural and remote medicine as a medical specialty : recognition of medical specialties Advisory Committee Report, December 2005 / Australian Medical Council Incorporated
Here are entered works on refusal by medical personnel to initiate or continue treatment of a patient or group of patients. Works on refusal of medical, psychological, or psychiatric treatment by patients or those authorized to make decisions for them are entered under Patient refusal of treatment
Here are entered works on personnel qualified to perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures under the responsibility and supervision of a physician. Works on personnel who perform administrative and clerical duties in a physician's office and may assist in routine clinical procedures are entered under Medical assistants