Medical professionalism is the ability to meet the relationship-centered expectations required to practice medicine competently. Examples -patient-physician relationship : being careful and thorough when performing physical examination -community-physician relationship : participating in initiatives to improve health care safety -health care system-physician relationship : interacting respectfully with other health care [...]
Despite a strong commitment to delivering quality health care, persistent problems involving medical errors and ineffective treatment continue to plague the industry. Many of these problems are the consequence of poor information technology (IT) capabilities, and most importantly, the lack of cognitive IT support. Clinicians spend a great deal of time sifting through large amounts [...]
A cochlear implant consists of several components. All cochlear implants have microphones, external speech processors, signal-transfer hardware, transmitters, receivers, and electrodes. Each plays an important part in converting sound to an electrical stimulus. The microphone simply receives and transduces sound into an electrical representation. This is done in an analog (continuous) fashion. The external speech [...]
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