Reading Doctors Research Articles

Sexualizing and pathologizing the Other; Reading Doctor Julius Karel Jacobs’s travel account to Bali in the nineteenth century

Sexualizing and pathologizing the Other; Reading Doctor Julius Karel Jacobs’s travel account to Bali in the nineteenth century

Reproductive health care appointments: How the institutional organization of obstetric/gynecological work shapes the experiences of women with female genital cutting in Toronto, Canada.

We investigated the social relations shaping the reproductive health care experiences of women with female genital cutting (FGC) in Toronto, Canada. Using Institutional Ethnography, we interviewed eight women with FGC and seven obstetrician/gynecologists (OB/GYN). We found a disjuncture between women's needs during appointments that extended beyond the reproductive body and range of care that doctors were able to provide. Women engaged in emotional healthwork during appointments by explaining FGC to doctors, reading doctors' body language, and getting through vulvar/vaginal examinations. Women reported that if they had emotional reactions during appointments, they were often referred to a mental health specialist, a referral on which they did not act. OB/GYNs described their specialty as "surgical"-training centered around treating reproductive abnormalities and not mental health issues. Therefore, the disjuncture between women's needs and OB/GYNs' institutional training highlights the difficulties inherent when bodies of "difference" encounter the reproductive health care system.

SISTEM BERBASIS CLOUD COMPUTING UNTUK IDENTIFIKASI RESEP DOKTER “BARSEP”

A doctor's prescription is a doctor's written request to the pharmacist to prepare and give medicine to the patient. Prescriptions are made according to the needs of the patient after the doctor has examined and diagnosed the patient. However, doctor’s writing on a prescription that considered unclear can cause errors when compounding / preparing the drug and using prescribed drugs. In fact, the cure rate and life expectancy of patients is directly proportional to the administration of the right medicine. This study aims to prevent errors in the process of identification of prescription drugs by pharmacists. The technology used is cloud computing with the PHP 7.1.3 programming language, Laravel framework, and database storage using MySQL. BarSep application works by adding QR Code on recipe paper. The QR Code contains patient examination information including patient data, prescription drugs, and diagnoses, so that when the pharmacist scans the QR Code, the system will display all patient information that has been inputted by the doctor at the time of the examination. The results obtained from the implementation of the BarSep application at the Rapha Farma Pharmacy is BarSep applications effective for tackling errors in reading doctor's prescriptions that can save patients from medication errors. A doctor's prescription is a doctor's written request to the pharmacist to prepare and give medicine to the patient. Prescriptions are made according to the needs of the patient after the doctor has examined and diagnosed the patient. However, doctor’s writing on a prescription that considered unclear can cause errors when compounding / preparing the drug and using prescribed drugs. In fact, the cure rate and life expectancy of patients is directly proportional to the administration of the right medicine. This study aims to prevent errors in the process of identification of prescription drugs by pharmacists. The technology used is cloud computing with the PHP 7.1.3 programming language, Laravel framework, and database storage using MySQL. BarSep application works by adding QR Code on recipe paper. The QR Code contains patient examination information including patient data, prescription drugs, and diagnoses, so that when the pharmacist scans the QR Code, the system will display all patient information that has been inputted by the doctor at the time of the examination. The results obtained from the implementation of the BarSep application at the Rapha Farma Pharmacy is BarSep applications effective for tackling errors in reading doctor's prescriptions that can save patients from medication errors.

Impact of Communicating With Doctors Via Social Media on Consumers’ E-Health Literacy and Healthy Behaviors in China

This study investigated the relationship between consumers’ communication with doctors and their e-Health literacy and healthy behaviors based on the theory of reasoned action. Five communication activities were identified: following doctors’ social media accounts, reading doctors’ posts, responding to doctors’ posts, favoring (clicking “like” of) doctors’ posts, and recommending doctors to other patients. E-Health literacy and healthy behaviors were measured based on instruments used in previous literature. Survey method was used to collect data and a hierarchical regression analysis was used to analyze the relationship between communication activities and consumers’ e-Health literacy and healthy behaviors. We found that following doctors’ accounts (r = 0.127, P < .001), responding to doctors’ posts (r = 0.141, P < .001) and recommending doctors to others (r = 0.133, P < .001) were significantly associated with e-Health literacy, while following doctors’ accounts (r = 0.091, P < .001), responding to doctors’ post (r = 0.072, P < .01), favoring doctors’ posts (r = 0.129, P < .001), and recommending doctors to others (r = 0.220, P < .001) were significantly associated with healthy behaviors. Our study demonstrated that the social network communication between doctors and consumers could be cost-effective in improving intermediary consumers’ health outcomes. To be specific, following doctors’ posts, responding to doctors’ posts, favoring doctors’ posts, and recommending doctors to others were positively associated with consumers’ e-Health literacy and healthy behaviors. The results suggested that leveraging information technology could be an important tool to health policymakers and health providers in order to improve outcomes.

The Efficacy of a Computer Program for Increasing Phonemic Awareness and Decoding Skills in a Primary School Setting for Children with Reading Difficulties

Abstract: This paper addresses a gap in research regarding the efficacy of software programs to help children with reading difficulties. Forty-two children aged 5-13 years identified as poor readers participated in a study over twelve weeks using Reading Doctor, a software program targeting phonemic awareness, orthographic-phonemic mappings, decoding ability and sight word recognition. Measures were taken using the Sutherland Phonological Awareness Test - Revised (SPAT-R), the Test of Word Reading Efficiency (TOWRE), and the graphemes and decoding subtests of the Phonological Awareness Test 2 (PAT-2). A quasi-experimental one group study with three multiple baseline measures was used. The dependent variables/measures were assessed seven times over a period of 32 weeks, allowing the research to be completed in the school-allocated time frame. Significant improvements were found on all three measures of phonological/phonemic awareness and word-reading efficiency. These improvements were maintained when assessed three months later, during which time the software program was not used.

Can an app a day keep illiteracy away? Piloting the efficacy of Reading Doctor apps for preschoolers with developmental language disorder

Purpose: This study investigated the efficacy of three Reading Doctor® (RD) apps in raising letter-sound aptitude, phoneme awareness and early decoding ability among children with heightened risk for reading difficulties due to developmental language disorder (DLD).Method: Twenty-four 4-year-old children with DLD, identified through baseline speech-language assessments, in their final term of pre-school participated in this study. In the experimental condition, 14 children participated twice a week in three RD apps for 8 weeks. In the control condition, 10 children engaged in their usual pre-school programme inclusive of teacher-delivered small-group activities related to letters and sounds taught in a non-systematic and non-explicit fashion.Result: No significant between-group differences were identified prior to the implementation of RD. Following instruction, pre-school children in the experimental condition performed significantly better than children in the control condition in phoneme blending (p < 0.001, d = 1.86), phoneme segmentation (p < 0.001, d = 1.15) and letter-sound recognition (p< 0.001, d = 1.92), as well as in the number of correct phoneme–grapheme conversions during early decoding attempts (p = 0.025, d = 1.08).Conclusion: Initial evidence suggests that RD software may support code-based reading readiness among pre-school children with DLD prior to school entry.

A follow-up system of radiograph interpretation reports by the remote diagnostic reading doctor at our hospital

A follow-up system of radiograph interpretation reports by the remote diagnostic reading doctor at our hospital

Current State of CT Coronary Angiography Service Provision in New Zealand - A 2017 Snapshot

Background: CT coronary angiography (CTCA) is an established modality for undifferentiated chest pain assessment, resulting in significant improvement and savings in chest pain pathways. CTCA has been gradually adopted in various parts of New Zealand, with significant geographic variations. Here, we document the current status of CTCA service provision in New Zealand. Methods: A semi-quantitative survey is carried out with the 20 DHBs in New Zealand. CTCA availability and service provision including personnel and facilities are detailed as of 1st March 2017. Anticipated change in the next 12 months is also enquired. Results: CTCA is available in 12 DHBs, most of which are predominately out-patient based or out-patient only service with an average throughput of 10 ± 5 scans per week. Five day a week inpatient service with integration with acute chest pain pathway is available in 4 DHBs. The main indications include chest pain with or without prior stress testing. Referrals are approved either by a CTCA reading doctor or a chest pain nurse specialist following a protocol. Most CTCA reading doctors (either cardiologist or radiologist) have Level A recognition of CTCA training. Two DHBs have business plans to start a CTCA program this year. Conclusion: CTCA in New Zealand remains in its infancy, with significant geographic variation in its availability. The majority of DHBs providing CTCA currently concentrates on outpatients, rather than being integrated to acute chest pain pathways.

Expert E-Prescription Application (EEPA) using Forward Chaining Method

Medical errors in reading doctor’s handwritten prescription are common in hospitals. These problems may harm the patient’s conditionif the pharmacist misreads a recipe given by the doctor. Therefore, Electronic prescribing (e-prescription) system is urgently needed to overcome faults in recipe prescription process. Pharmacist or medical staff can easily read a handwritten recipe by using an eprescription application. Here, we develop Expert E-Prescription Application (EEPA) utilized with recipe recommendation feature based on the disease symptoms. In this application, there are three types of user with the different access rights for each of them; doctor, pharmacist, and receptionist. EEPA facilitate the receptionist in registering, filling, and updating patient data. Doctor can generate a recommended recipe by typing the symptoms and also view the history of patient medical records. Pharmacist can also check patient’s prescription and give a medicine based on patient id number. Test result of this application which justified by the expert (doctor) give the accuracy of 91,67%.

„The Text Was Considered Miraculous”. Magic Words in Pasternak’s „Doctor Zhivago”

In Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak brings scientific and political discourses into dialogue with magical ones. In an emblematic episode, two soldiers from opposing sides each wear a protective amulet containing the „miraculous” text of the 90th Psalm. One dies; one survivesWhile this discrepancy is easily traced to scientific and socioeconomic causes, the episode isdesigned to foreground the least rational explanation: that done right, magic actually worksEmbodying Pasternak’s interest in the interrelationships among science, politics, poetry, andmagic, the textual amulet is especially significant because it represents a magical power that is reserved for words. This article finds that Pasternak’s novel contains numerous examples of such efficacious „magical” texts – from the Gospels to peasant songs, from political slogans to Zhivago’s poems – and argues that reading Doctor Zhivago by the light of these„magic words” yields insights into the aesthetics and design of the novel.

Positive Wrongdoings: Reading Doctors' Narratives on Ordinary Ethics

The ethics of everyday life, morality of ordinary, is 'place' in which medical ethics is enacted (. . .) The case studies filling ethics textbooks do not typically address moral dynam- ics of everyday care of patients. Extraordinary decisions are not routine. An ethics of is also required. 1 Doctors' narratives about their experiences of the morality of ordinary hit on major questions that have troubled ethicists in contemporary philosophy and ethical literary criticism in last two decades and that deeply concern medical educators and practicing physicians in their endeavor to foster medical professionalism in day-by-day care of patients. How can one accommodate moral ideals, understood here as duties of medical professionalism, with emotional messiness of living and harried everyday real- ity of medical practitioners? Who has moral authority in clinical setting? Indeed, what do we mean when we talk about caregivers' moral authority and responsibilities? How can doctors best balance principles of beneficence and patient autonomy in their relationships with patients? And what images of good doctor does medical education conjure and hope to instill in minds and hearts of young students and residents? In their narrated accounts of ethical engagements, doctors whose autobiographical stories I shall analyze in this essay place their moral choices in concrete, dense contexts that invoke what Martha Nussbaum calls the indeterminacy, sheer difficulty of actual hu- man deliberation. 2 Because their narratives are more complex and more closely resemble lived experience of practicing physicians than usually terse cases in bioethics textbooks, those narratives

Reading doctors' writing

Reading doctors' writing

The present Situation of Education for Reading Doctor of indirect Fruologastrography

The present Situation of Education for Reading Doctor of indirect Fruologastrography

Primary care training for patent medicine vendors in rural Nigeria

The provision of essential drugs and the involvement of various potential and existing health care providers (e.g. teachers and traditional healers) are two important primary health care strategies. One local group that is already actively supplying the medication needs of the community is the patent medicine vendors (PMVs), but the formal health establishment often views their activities with alarm. One way to improve the quality of the PMVs' contribution to primary care is through training, since no formal course is required of them before they are issued a license by government. Primary care training was offered to the 49 members of the Patent Medicine Sellers Association of Igbo-Ora, a small town in western Nigeria. Baseline information was gathered through interview, observation and pre-test. A training committee of Association members helped prioritize training needs and manage training logistics. Thirty-seven members and their apprentices underwent the 8 weekly 2-hr sessions on recognition and treatment (including non-drug therapies) for malaria, diarrhoea, guinea worm, sexually transmitted diseases, respiratory infections, and malnutrition, plus sessions on reading doctor's prescriptions and medication counseling. The group scored significantly higher at post-test and also showed significant gains over a control group of PMVs from another town in the district. The Igbo-Ora experience shows that PMVs can improve their health care knowledge and thus increase their potential value as primary health care team members.

Look-Alike and Sound-Alike Drugs

Look-alike and sound-alike drugs can be misinterpreted by a nurse reading doctors' orders and by a pharmacist compounding physicians' prescriptions. Such misunderstandings can result in the administration of a drug not intended by the prescribes Awareness of such look-alike and sound-alike drugs can reduce potential errors.

Look-Alike and Sound-Alike Drugs

Look-alike and sound-alike drugs can be misinter-preted by a nurse reading doctors' orders and by a pharmicist compounding physicians' prescriptions. Such misunderstandings can result in the administration of a drug not intended by the prescriber. Awareness of such look-alike and sound-alike drugs can reduce potential errors.

Look-Alike and Sound-Alike Drugs

Look-alike and sound-alike drugs can be misinterpreted by a nurse reading doctors' orders and by a pharmacist compounding physicians' prescriptions. Such misunderstandings can result in the administration of a drug not intended by the prescriber. Awareness of such look-alike and sound-alike drugs can reduce potential errors.

Look-Alike and Sound-Alike Drugs

Look-alike and sound-alike drugs can be misinterpreted by a nurse reading doctors' orders and by a pharmacist compounding physicians' prescriptions. Such misunderstandings can result in the administration of a drug not intended by the prescriber. Awareness of such look-alike and sound-alike drugs can reduce potential errors.

Look-Alike and Sound-Alike Drugs

Look-alike and sound-alike drugs can be misinterpreted by a nurse reading doctors' orders and by a pharmacist compounding physicians' prescriptions. Such misunderstandings can result in the administration of a drug not intended by the prescriber. Awareness of such look-alike and sound-alike drugs can reduce potential errors.

Look-Alike and Sound-Alike Drugs

Look-alike and sound-alike drugs can be misinterpreted by a nurse reading doctors' orders and by a pharmacist compounding physicians' prescriptions. Such misunderstandings can result in the administration of a drug not intended by the prescriber. Awareness of such look-alike and sound-alike drugs can reduce potential errors.