[Patient satisfaction with care in gastrooesophageal reflux disease].

Introduction: Besides medical treatment, adequate communication and personal relationships between physicians and patients are the most important determinants of patient satisfaction.

Aim: To explore doctor-patient relationships, and factors that may determine patient satisfaction with care.

Method: Patients with gastroesophageal reflux (n = 80) were divided into subgroups treated by family doctors or by gastroenterologists.

[Attitude of medical students to smoking and to the regulatory measures related to smoking].

Unlabelled: In some countries strict tobacco control measures successfully reduced the number of smokers. Although these measures do not have immediate effects, they may serve as investments in the future healthcare. Health care experts should take part actively in the decision making.

[Medical students' smoking habits and attitudes about cessation].

Unlabelled: Medical years are very important in shaping the attitudes of future doctors. It is proven that doctors who smoke do not advise their patient to stop smoking. We have to know the students' smoking habits and attitudes about smoking cessation to make them interested in the fight against tobacco.