[Should general practitioners be able to perform all procedures?].

Performing interventions, such as surgical procedures and musculoskeletal injections, have traditionally been a hallmark of general practice. Despite the advantages, such as cost-effectiveness and high patient satisfaction, it appears that there is great variation in the number of procedures performed by general practitioners in different countries. General practitioners are expected to have the basic skills to perform minor surgical procedures after completing their general practitioner training.

A century of prosopometamorphopsia studies.

Prosopometamorphopsia is an extremely rare disorder of visual perception characterised by facial distortions. We here review 81 cases (eight new ones and 73 cases published over the past century) to shed light on the perception of face gestalts. Our analysis indicates that the brain systems underlying the perception of face gestalts have genuine network properties, in the sense that they are widely disseminated and built such that spatially normal perception of faces can be maintained even when large parts of the network are compromised.

Premonitory symptoms in glyceryl trinitrate triggered migraine attacks: a case-control study.

Spontaneous and pharmacologically provoked migraine attacks are frequently preceded by nonheadache symptoms called premonitory symptoms. Here, we systematically evaluated premonitory symptoms in migraine patients and healthy controls after glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) infusion. In women with migraine without aura (n = 34) and age-matched female controls (n = 24), we conducted systematically a semistructured interview assessing 21 possible premonitory symptoms every 15 minutes in the 5 hours after GTN infusion (0.