Hydroxychloroquine retinopathy screening guidelines: a false positive.

Hydroxychloroquine sulphate (HCQ) is widely used for the treatment of a variety of rheumatological and dermatological conditions. Despite the advantages of HCQ as a treatment option, it is important to be aware of its potential retinal toxicity, which may be irreversible and progressive. In December 2020, The Royal College of Ophthalmologists published revised recommendations on monitoring HCQ retinopathy.

Learning through Osmosis: A global Wikipedia editing course for medical students.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Wikipedia is a ubiquitous source of information for patients, medical students and junior doctors alike.

Acute portal vein thrombosis in noncirrhotic patients - different prognoses based on presence of inflammatory markers: a long-term multicenter retrospective analysis.

Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a partial or complete thrombotic occlusion of the portal vein and is rare in noncirrhotic patients. 78 adult patients with noncirrhotic acute PVT without known malignity were evaluated. Patients with initial CRP level 61-149 mg/l were excluded.

Examining the ethico-legal aspects of the right to refuse treatment in Turkey.

This paper examines the ethico-legal problems regarding the right to refuse treatment in Turkey's healthcare system. We discuss these problems in the light of a recent case that was directly reported to us. We first summarise the experience of a chronically dependent patient (as recounted by her daughter) and her family during their efforts to refuse treatment and receive palliative care only.

Towards a specific approach to education in dental ethics: a proposal for organising the topics of biomedical ethics for dental education.

Understanding dental ethics as a field separate from its much better known counterpart, medical ethics, is a relatively new, but necessary approach in bioethics. This need is particularly felt in dental education and establishing a curriculum specifically for dental ethics is a challenging task. Although certain topics such as informed consent and patient rights can be considered to be of equal importance in both fields, a number of ethical issues in dental practice are only remotely-if at all-relevant for medical practice.

What do patients expect from their physicians? Qualitative research on the ethical aspects of patient statements.

This study aimed to examine the thoughts and expectations of patients receiving healthcare from their physicians and evaluate the ethical aspects of these thoughts and expectations. To determine the ethical aspects of the thoughts and expectations of patients, an open-ended question was asked on the web page of the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) Health Care Command, which is accessible to the users of the TAF intranet system (the internet system used within TAF institutions). The participants were asked to express their thoughts in their own words.

Truth-telling in cancer: examining the cultural incompatibility argument in Turkey.

This article aims to examine critically the 'cultural incompatibility' argument, which asserts that disclosure of cancer-related information to patients is incompatible with Turkey's cultural context. For this purpose, a brief overview of the approach to truth-telling in Turkey will first be provided, followed by the claims of two different Turkish authors on the issue and a critical analysis of their approach. It will be contended that this argument has actually been formulated with paternalistic concerns and it may be playing an important role in shaping the approach of Turkish health care professionals to the issue.

Advance directives in Turkey's cultural context: examining the potential benefits for the implementation of patient rights.

Advance directives are not a part of the healthcare service in Turkey. This may be related with the fact that paternalism is common among the healthcare professionals in the country, and patients are not yet integrated in the decision-making process adequately. However, starting from the enactment of the Regulation of Patient Rights in 1998, this situation started to change.

Turkish military personnel's expectations for health care services provided to them.

Objective: The goal was to determine the expectations of patients using the health care services provided in the health care institutions of Turkish Armed Forces (TAF).

Methods: This study was performed between August 2002 and March 2003, with an open-ended question placed on the World Wide Web site of TAF Health Command. The framework was an intranet, which is a special Internet structure across the TAF institutions.

A study of the opinions and behaviors of physicians with regard to informed consent and refusing treatment.

Objective: To examine the opinions and the self-reported behaviors of physicians regarding the issues of informed consent and refusing treatment.

Design: This study was performed between July and September 2003, with 51 physicians selected by simple random sampling. The data were collected by using a questionnaire.