Medical errors rank behind heart disease and cancer as the third leading cause of death in the U.S., Johns Hopkins researchers say. ... Based on an analysis of prior research, the Johns Hopkins study estimates that more than 250,000 Americans die each year from medical errors. May 3, 2016
风清fq 发表评论于
临床医生在医学院做科研是以教授的头衔:assistant professor, associate professor, or professor. 在非医学领域做研究可以是visiting scientist. 外国学者来美国医院、医学院参加科研,可称为visiting scholar 或任何其它称谓,但是,没有执照是不允许直接接触病人的。偶尔特殊情况下申请到临时院内行医执照,也必须在主任医supervisor 的指导下行事,充其量不过半年一年吧了。即便外国医生凭借H1 签证在美受训当住院医师也最多是4、5年至6、7年时间,他们的职称是“住陔医生”。18年的“l研究医生”实在无法想象究竟是属于哪个catergory. 假如博主的本意是想赞美美国医疗技术在大多数情况下较中国有更高的先进性,那我完全同意。但应该很清楚地意识到,医生是人不是神,无论是在中国还是在美国都会犯错,不仅仅是经验、判断、技术层面上的,而且是责任层面上的。
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i want to share with you a little bit of diagnostic criteria of children's asthma. clinical diagnosis of asthma is not strict. it depends on symptoms, signs and duration of symptoms, plus some breathing tests. diagnosis in children is more difficult, because of their age, cooperation, limitation of instruments, technicians' skills, etc.. among physicians, each person has his own standard, though he is aware of the national criteria. it simply is too difficult in children. so, one physician said he/she had asthma. the other one certainly can denied it. as long as the medicines prescribed helped your child, the diagnosis is correct. in this case, we call it "diagnosed by response". it is very common.
chinese are afraid of asthma. whenever the term is mentioned, most parents jumped up and denied the diagnosis. nowdays, asthma is among children's top respiratory system illness. to most of them, it is mild, limited and disappears at/around the year of starting school. nothing to worry too much, at all
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“研究医生”或许是指physician scientist,一边做临床,一边做科研。
drzero 发表评论于
agree with your comments. american doctors, for most times, under most circumstances, do follow protocols. physicians do employ some special treatments out of the recommended protocols. in case of legal action, physicians win or not depending not only whatever they did, also the circumstances under which the special treatment was used. it does not mean it is always physicians fault.
people complain the cost of health care. here, most people, mistakenly, blame hospital's charge to physicians' income. it is not true, absolutely not true. hospital produce hospital bill, labs have their separate bills, x ray has x ray charge. the same the physicians'.
so, please do not blame physicians' services. on the other hand, do not expect physicians here in american charge $15rmb for the services provided. most physicians work hard, diligently, good or bad. i can guarantee you not many physicians want to hurt their patients.