Gut Feeling: First the Belly, then the Stomach: Phenomenological Thinking in Medical Practice
Summary: To find appropriate decisions in medical practice, doctors´ thinking can be deductive, inductive, but also abductive. The first approach solves a problem by...
The Hitherto Failure of the Polypill in India and Elsewhere
Summary: The Polypill concept, known for 10 years, has found no practical response despite great publication impact. This is also true for India, where authorization...
Do Academic Family Practices Reflect Routine Primary Care?
A Methodological ApproachBackground: Participation rates in family medicine research projects differ depending on the sampling method: rates of 40–60 % are described...
Family Practitioners’ View of Research in Practice Based Research Networks
A Focus Group AnalysisIntroduction: Practice Based Research Networks (PBRN) have proved internationally to be successful in primary care research. To improve research...
QuestionA mother presented her 7-year-old son, who has a narrowed but still just retractable penis foreskin and a flat sebaceus cyst at the base of the glans penis,...
