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It would seem epivir-hbv 100mg for sale medications 7 rights, however, whether by preference, mutual decision or default, that women physicians continue to take Physicians who enjoy successful intimate partnerships learn more responsibility on the home front than their male counter- early that certain attributes that serve them well at work are parts. For example, while physicians of female physicians being the primary or sole income earner are accustomed to their role as experts and expect to be in in their households. In contrast to Protecting and nurturing our intimate relationships may require most physicians’ experience of medical education, marriage is a re-examination of our professional responsibilities and work non-competitive. As you develop your resident group or consider Relationships, however, do require work in realtime, a sense of your eventual practice setting, keep these questions in mind: humour, and a degree of luck. John Gottman, a respected re- • Does your group discuss shock-absorber systems for searcher in marriage and relationships, stresses the importance parental leaves and urgent family issues? She had speculated that a child would keep geographical triangle: home, school and workplace. Keeping her relationship together, given her partner’s attraction to logistics as simple as possible will beneft your marriage and “more medicine” and achievement. He expresses fear of giving in Raising children together to his feelings lest they derail his career focus. With the For many women physicians, the question of when to plan counsellor’s help, they review their priorities with regard childbearing is especially challenging when training demands to career plans and the timing of child-bearing. Supportive sessions lead to a better understanding of their mutual colleagues and training programs are nearly as important as a objectives, and of the supports available to them to help supportive partner. Furthermore, resi- dency training directors never accompany graduated residents impact on your family, whose sleep is being disturbed by the to the infertility clinic. The concept that it takes a village to raise a child applies to medical families, too. Women physicians are particularly aware Vacations are one of the non-urgent but important elements that the more they work, and the greater number of children of time management. Vacations in which play and fun—and they choose to have, the greater the chance that they will need not perfection—are modelled, where being rather than doing to rely on child care arrangements beyond the family. Many are valued and pleasure for its own sake is enjoyed, are healthy women physicians and dual-career couples fnd live-in help with for the whole family (Maier 2005) regard to child care invaluable. External assistance with regard to other household duties can also be a time-management tool Summary that benefts everyone. Managing the expectations of our partners and others can be problematic in medical relationships. Some of these expecta- Two points to remember when your medical relationship is tions may be fnancial, arising from assumptions about what blessed with children are these: the lifestyles of physicians will be. You do not have to be perfect, but you can be good pectation of concierge service within the health care system. All deserve Although little has been written about the children of physi- refection, good communication and attention to maintaining cians, we do know that children want and deserve their parents’ appropriate and ubiquitous boundaries. Depending on their stage of development, this may mean breastfeeding for the recommended time, taking Relationships go through cycles. Should your medical marriage the maximum possible parental leave, delaying a career move, run into challenges, remember you are not alone. Even if you cannot Myers, through his book Doctors’ Marriages, shares his wisdom always be there, it is important to work with your partner and that face-to-face couples’ therapy works best. Seek professional to communicate with your child so that you are emotionally help through your community resources or your physician involved and up-to-date with what is going on in your child’s health program. In addition, more men than ever before are taking This chapter will advantage of parental leave policies. Thus, traditional gender • describe some of the challenges commonly faced by phy- roles in Canadian culture are clearly undergoing a healthy evo- sician parents, lution. However, these shifts have created new challenges for • summarize supports that programs can use to facilitate training programs as they strive to balance principles of sound sustainability of residents who are parents, and education and training, human rights and responsibilities, and • identify strategies for resident physicians to promote their health care human resource issues. Medical students are watching this transition and may choose not to Case engage in specialty medicine if it is perceived to be adverse to A second-year resident has recently adopted an infant their family-related values and expectations. However, several residents in the year are In the meantime, academic medicine has not been particularly off on parental leave, and the frequency of call is higher kind to physician parents who have typically enjoyed less insti- than usual.

Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices Repeat prescribing and prescribing e patients who need further examination or with repeats assessment are reviewed by an appropriate healthcare professional 55 You are responsible for any prescription you sign epivir-hbv 100 mg with mastercard medicine of the people, including repeat prescriptions for medicines f any changes to the patient’s medicines are initiated by colleagues, so you must make sure critically reviewed and quickly incorporated that any repeat prescription you sign is safe and into their record. You should consider the benefts of prescribing with repeats to reduce the need for 58 At each review, you should confrm that the repeat prescribing. This may be particularly the patient what medicines are appropriate and important following a hospital stay, or changes how their condition will be managed, including to medicines following a hospital or home visit. You should make clear why You should also consider whether requests for regular reviews are important and explain to the repeat prescriptions received earlier or later than patient what they should do if they: expected may indicate poor adherence, leading to inadequate therapy or adverse effects. You should keep a record of dispensers You must make clear records of these discussions who hold original repeat dispensing prescriptions and your reasons for repeat prescribing. You must consider: d only staff who are competent to do so prepare repeat prescriptions for authorisation a the limitations of the medium through which you are communicating with the patient 23 See Saving time, helping patients: A good practice guide to quality repeat prescribing (2004), Dispensing with repeats: a practical guide to repeat dispensing (2008) and service improvement guides and other resources available at www. You should make sure that any instructions, for example Prescribing unlicensed medicines for administration or monitoring the patient’s 67 The term ‘unlicensed medicine’ is used to condition, are understood and send written describe medicines that are used outside the confrmation as soon as possible. They are also used, less frequently, in other previously provided them with face-to-face care, areas of medicine. Examples include medicines to the public by prescribing via (but are not limited to), for example, where:26 websites that breach advertising regulations. Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices i there is no licensed medicine applicable c make a clear, accurate and legible record of to the particular patient. For example, all medicines prescribed and, where you are if the patient is a child and a medicine not following common practice, your reasons licensed only for adult patients would for prescribing an unlicensed medicine. In emergencies or where medicine would not meet the patient’s there is no realistic alternative treatment and need; or such information is likely to cause distress, it may not be practical or necessary to draw iv the patient needs a medicine in a attention to the licence. In other cases, where formulation that is not specifed in prescribing unlicensed medicines is supported an applicable licence. This may arise where, for example, questions from patients (or their parents or there is a temporary shortage in supply; or carers) about medicines fully and honestly. This does not preclude the provision of made for another suitable doctor to do so any care or treatment where your intention is to 27 The Medicines for Children leafets on unlicensed medicines produced protect or improve the patient’s health. The British Pain Society publishes Using medicines beyond licence: Information for patients. The manuscript of The Death of Humane Medicine was completed a few days before his death. Born in Czechoslovakia he acquired a doctorate from Charles University and worked as a forensic toxicologist. He had almost finished his medical studies when in 1968, whilst he and his wife, Vera, were in Ireland, the Russians entered Prague. They decided to remain in Ireland and Petr enrolled in the College of Surgeons medical school and qualified at the Society of Apothecaries. After house officer posts he worked in the field of neuro- transmitters and became an authority on Substance P. He joined the Department of Community Health in Trinity Col- lege, Dublin in 1984, initially in a temporary capacity, aided by a grant from the Wellcome Foundation. He was sub- sequently appointed as a lecturer, then senior lecturer and finally associate professor. He was made a fellow of the college and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. His last book, Follies and Fallacies in Medicine, written with James McCormick, has been translated into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish. One of the smartest moves in my working life was to make the acquaintance of Petr Skrabanek. In 1968, when Russian troops invaded Prague, he and his wife Vera happened to be on holiday in Dublin. They opted to remain in Ireland, where they brushed up their English with the aid of a copy of Ulysses (Petr later became an international authority on the works of James Joyce).

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The pressures of rising health costs epivir-hbv 150mg low cost medications causing dry mouth, particularly on private employ- ers, encouraged an increased adoption of managed care. Narrowly construed, managed care involved establishing contractual relation- ships between physicians, hospitals, and other providers and health plans that limited the cost of care to predefined rates. However, more broadly, these contracts gave health insurers the power to review and modify physicians’ treatment plans to ensure that they were medically appropriate (with the goal of minimizing the cost). The advent of managed care contracts massively complicated the business operations of most medical practices. Because there are hundreds of health insurance plans with different cov- erage, review criteria, rates, and administrative procedures, health providers of all stripes found themselves bound like Gulliver by an emerging bureaucratic enterprise whose fundamental economic purpose was hostile to their own. The practical reality of these changes was that physicians could not count on being paid for medical care that cost more than a few hundred dollars without obtaining prior approval from a health plan. Physicians were forced to double or triple their office staffs, in some cases, to manage all these new transactions, which de- pended largely on telephone calls, fax transmittals, and written cor- respondence. The increasingly complex logistics of medical practice claimed an increasing percentage of the physicians’ workday, sub- tracting from time available for patients and family. No one likes having his or her professional judgment or moral commitment ques- tioned. It is not difficult to understand why the diminution of pro- fessional autonomy, incomes, and moral authority that physicians have experienced in the past decade would be unpleasant and stress- ful to them. But the increasing logistical complexity of physician practice has also taken a hidden toll on physicians. It has interfered with their intellectual development and ability to continue growing as professionals. They were the children who took things apart to see how they worked (and often succeeded in putting them back together). Many physicians were fascinated by the scientific portion of their medical training and continue to think of themselves, at least in part, as scientists. As the years in practice mount up and medical practice becomes more routine and repetitive, physicians yearn for new knowledge and ideas. The fact that they find gratifying this yearning increasingly difficult may be as important a contributor to professional burnout as the stress. As the logistical complexity of professional practice has grown and administrative and familial obligations have grown alongside them, many physicians have found it difficult, if not impossible, to keep up with the exciting scientific discoveries taking place not only in their own disciplines but also in the underlying biological science as well. Physicians see tantalizing glimpses of this progress in newspapers and the business and professional press. Unfortunately, however, a monthly hospital-sponsored continuing medical education session and interaction with drug detail persons may be the most important sources of new knowledge for the typical practicing physician. The channels through which knowledge passes to practicing physicians are narrow, convoluted, and inefficient. Physicians have sometimes been blamed for slowing the spread of computerization in healthcare. Alissa Spielberg writes about the physician reaction to the telephone, a technology that unquestionably transformed medical practice: From its inception, the telephone engendered [physician] con- cerns about privacy and security. Its intrusiveness into daily living and personal space made the telephone particularly vexing to early users who complained about solicitations, eavesdroppers, and even “wire transmitted germs”. As the telephone became embedded within American culture, patients expected their physicians to be accessible at any time for almost any reason. Physicians felt vul- nerable, even “slaves,” to a potential barrage of calls from anxious patients. Although patients and physicians recognized potential problems with confidentiality and care over the telephone, most also con- ceded that the telephone had dramatically altered the patient- physician relationship by making private what was once public. In my sample of several thousand physician contacts and friends, most are fascinated with technology. They adopt it aggressively in their own fields of specialization and are constantly scanning the horizon 70 Digital Medicine for new technology that may help them in their work (Figure 4. They buy technologically advanced automobiles, home computers, and sound equipment and gravitate to “gear-intensive” sports like sailing and skiing.






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