In recent decades studies based on questionnaires and interviews have concluded that
when doctors become ill they face significant barriers to seeking help. Several reasons have …

The Baltic Sea region in northern Europe, with its history of multiple cultural and social
transformations, as well as mixture of national and regional scientific styles, has lately …

AIM: The aim of this paper was to define the incidence of disease progression of the
contralateral internal carotid artery (CICA) in patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy …

AIM: To study hemodynamic and blood oxygenation changes in patients undergoing carotid
endarterectomy (CEA) under general (GA) or locoregional (LRA) anesthesia. METHODS …

Objectives: To evaluate the transition process from conventional carotid endarterectomy
(cCEA) to eversion carotid endarterectomy (eCEA). Methods: Patients operated with carotid …

Several physicians have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature, but so far none of
them have received it. Because physicians as women and men of letters have been a major …

Medical practice could be described as a drama in which doctors and patients are two actors
with very different roles to play. While doctoring has traditionally been regarded as a rational …

A number of studies show that when doctors become ill, there is often ambiguity in the
division of roles and responsibilities in the medical encounter. Yet little is known about how …

This article explores the complexity of mental distress among physicians, as portrayed in two
literary narratives: John Berger and Jean Mohr's A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country …

Few historical figures have been as diversely interpreted as the 16th century Swiss
physician Paracelsus. Celebrated by some as the founder of modern medicine, accused by …