RESUMO
The attitudes of students, resident house physicians, and medical social workers towards 10 medical conditions were assessed in relation to both personal attitudes and the opinions expressed of the attitudes of the medical profession. Final-year students and house physicians showed unfavourable attitudes towards self-poisoning in contrast to fourth-year students and medical social workers. The fourth-year students were given the opportunity to admit patients referred to hospital with self-poisoning and visited the family doctor and the patient after discharge. After this exposure there was a subjective impression that the students became more interested in the problems of use self-poisoned patients, and this was supported by a review of their attitudes at the end of the teaching project.
Assuntos
Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde , Educação de Graduação em Medicina , Intoxicação , Tentativa de Suicídio , Currículo , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Internato e Residência , Relações Médico-Paciente , Escócia , Medicina Social , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
A survey of recurrent indigestion in four general practices (19,619 patients) showed a wide range of dyspeptic complaints. Of these 82 (4.2 per 1,000) already had a proved ulcer and 144 (7.3 per 1,000) had symptoms suggesting a duodenal ulcer and had either not been investigated or had previously had a normal barium meal. A duodenal ulcer was found radiologically in half the men (46 out of 95) but in only 16% of the women (8 out of 49). In 11 (25%) of the 46 men shown to have an ulcer a barium meal had been previously reported as normal. Evidence is put forward that ulcer symptoms in the large residue of patients with a normal barium meal (38 men, 29 women) were produced by a primary duodenal condition (duodenitis) of which ulcer was one complication.
