Suffering is often a part of the illness experience, and relieving it is a fundamental obligation
of medicine. Distress, injury, disease, and loss generate suffering when they threaten …

Storylines of Family Medicine is a 12-part series of thematically linked essays with accompanying
illustrations that explore the many dimensions of family medicine, as interpreted by …

Aims: This thesis aimed to explore the physician’s capacity for, and their experiences and
notions of compassion throughout training and in family practice. Methods: This qualitative …

The extraordinary women, who are strong enough to stand against conventions, have always
been represented as evil and wicked in the literary canon. These female characters are …

Compassion has long been considered the cornerstone of the patientdoctor relationship. It
is described in our medical ethics as a virtue ‘that combines an attitude of active regard for …

This paper compares the public’s access to new prescription medicines in Australia and New
Zealand via their respective national medicines reimbursement schemes in the period 2000…

Introduction: Reflection is thought to be an essential skill for physicians. Although much has
been written about it, there is little concurrence about how to best teach reflection in medical …

Background Patients and physicians have traditionally valued compassion; however, there
is concern that physician compassion has declined with the increasing emphasis on science …

Herein we describe a new species of the gekkonid genus Cyrtopodion from Dadun, a town
between Toksun County and Turpan City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Western …

Introduction Little is known of processes by which feedback affects learners to influence
achievement. This review maps what is known of how learners interact with feedback, to better …