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February 17, 2014

Teaching about medical ethics and deontology, included in curriculums of most important medical faculties in Europe and USA, has a…

April 3, 2018

Catamenial pneumothorax is a rare form of spontaneous pneumothorax that repeatedly occurs in women of reproductive age. The exact epidemiology…

March 27, 2018

Detection and response to stimuli is the ability of every living being. When this process is interfered, we talk about…

June 3, 2014

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is one of the most common epilepsy syndromes, which accounts for nearly 10% of all epilepsies. It…

June 2, 2014

The article describes ethical and law dilemmas that physicians encounter nowadays. After a short deontological and law review the author…

September 15, 2013

Modern medicine has been paying increasing attention to eating disorders. The official classification of the diseases deals only with those…

September 14, 2013

Santorio Santorio (1561−1636), a physician born in Capodistria, introduced new worth into medicine with his quantitative approach. The possibility of…

September 14, 2013

Abdominal pain is a common presentation in outpatient settings and is challenging to diag­nose. As the physician of the first…

September 7, 2013

The purpose of this study was to de­termine the diagnostic value of the lymphocyte blast transformation test in Lyme disease.…

September 6, 2013

Near-death experiences are experiences of deep feelings of out-of-body experiences and of entering other dimensions outside the usual borders of…

September 3, 2013

The objective of taking occupational history is for occupational medicine practitioners to find out about the relevant factors from the…

September 3, 2013

Almost 20% of patients who consult their family physicians, present with physically unexplained symptoms. Diagnostic clues include multiple unexplained symptoms,…

September 3, 2013

Irritable bowel syndrome is one of the most common medical conditions diagnosed today. It is a chronic functional gastrointestinal disorder…

August 26, 2013

Asthma is the commonest chronic
 illness and one of the most dangerous diseases 
in childhood. Paradoxically, it is often recognized…

August 23, 2013

Communication with patients presents an important part of a physicians' work. The dis­agreements that appear during the consultation process, can…