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J C Edwards

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Measuring attitude toward family medicine.

This study attempts to develop a valid and reliable scale to measure student attitude toward family medicine. It describes a 35-item Likert scale that incorporates the nature of family medicine, the competency of family physicians, and the academic image of family medicine departments. The scale was administered to 116 first-year medical students. Concurrent validity and internal reliability for the scale are reported. Two forms of item analysis--item-to-total-score correlation and factor analysis--resulted in the selection of 23 items for the final scale. Seventy-three percent of the first-year students responding to the scale expressed a positive attitude toward family medicine.

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The treatment of intractable myocardial failure after open-heart surgery by whole body hypothermia.

A case of intractable right ventricular failure following open heart surgery is presented which responded dramatically to moderate whole-body hypothermia. In addition to its depressant effect on heart rate, allowing improved ventricular filling when this is impaired by severe tachycardia, evidence is presented that hypothermia also has a direct positive may make hypothermia valuable in the management of severe heart failure.

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The pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis.

The main focus of the chronic inflammatory response in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the synovium. Even though we do not know what causes this debilitating disease, characterisation of the infiltrating inflammatory cells and their products is of major importance in understanding the pathogenesis. In this short review we will highlight the main cell populations and their products (cytokines) in RA synovium which may be candidate targets for therapy.

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