Quante, Arnim Schulz, Kristina Fissler, Maria
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
The aim of this study was to explore the psychiatric comorbidities in cancer patients examined by the psychiatric consultation liaison services (CLP) in a general hospital. Furthermore, we intended to examine associations between certain cancers types and psychiatric disorders as well as to give an overview of the psychiatric treatments options tha...
Alkatout, Ibrahim Strack, Micha Maass, Nicolai Boos, Margarete Hopf, Norbert
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
Are medical values receding in importance because of economization of the German health system? Within the frame of a vignette study, a case is presented based on prolongation of the hospitalization of an elderly and not entirely recovered patient. All respondents of the questionnaire predicted the relevance of decision criteria, such as medical ac...
Hoffer-Pober, Angelika Strametz-Juranek, Jeanette
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
In the study social support during illness, in health behavior and coping with disease were investigated with respect to the interrelationship with each other and to gender differences. The aim of the study was to examine whether there is a gender difference in social support during illness and to highlight the gender aspects of relationships betwe...
Rokitansky-Tilscher, Ursula
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
The science-based Viennese School of Medicine arose from the collaboration between pathological anatomy and clinical medicine. The recognition of the clinical-pathological correlation enabled the Bohemian pathological anatomist Carl Rokitansky to describe the course of a disease and make a diagnosis. Rokitansky's systematic classification and expla...
Šteiner, Ivo
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
During the entire 19th century, Czech lands (Bohemia and Moravia) were part of the Austrian Empire (from 1867, Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy). Obviously, there used to be quite frequent migration of Czechs of all social groups towards Austria, particularly to the capital Vienna. It is estimated that in the year 1900, from the 1.6 million inhabitants ...
Paksoy, Nadir
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Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift
The Imperial Medical School (Mektebi Tibbiye‑i Şahane), established in Istanbul in 1839 as the first medical school, in the Western sense, took the Josephinum Military Medical Academy in Vienna as an example, and this led to a period of flourishing in terms of Austrian–Turkish medical relationships. Dr. Karl Ambros Bernard, Dr. Jacob Anton Neuer an...
Schreiner, Sonja
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
Ignaz Semmelweis' (1818-1865) discovery of the endemic causes of febris puerperalis is a striking example of the role of pathology in medicine. Transdisciplinarity encounters Semmelweis' biography, which is neither linear nor totally focused on medicine. He completed the philosophicum (artisterium), studying the septem artes liberales (1835-1837) i...
Scatena, Cristian Naccarato, Antonio Giuseppe
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
Paolo Mascagni (Pisa 1755-Siena 1815) was one of the major members of the cultural and scientific community in Tuscany in the XIX century. After initial interest in geological investigations, he successfully turned his attention to medical sciences. In 1801, Mascagni was appointed as Professor of Anatomy at the University of Pisa, with additional c...
Wangler, Julian Jansky, Michael
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
General practitioner (GP) treatment of dementia is often criticized as being ineffective and not implemented consistently enough. The causes and specific standpoints of GPs have not previously been thoroughly investigated. This paper focuses on the reasons and the criticisms levelled at GPs with regard to diagnosing dementia, and identifies approac...
Bagot, Jean-Lionel Delègue, Clara
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Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
Nearly half of patients discontinue tamoxifen hormone therapy early because of side effects, thus increasing the risk of breast cancer recurrence. Could a homeopathic treatment improve compliance? A patient suffering from side effects of tamoxifen was seen in consultation every 2 months for 10 months by a senior homeopathic doctor and a registrar. ...
