Aust Fam Physician
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Dementia is a disorder of memory and thinking, severe enough to interfere with a person's life. In the early stages of the disease, an accurate diagnosis may be difficult to make. ⋯ The assessment of people with cognitive difficulties includes the exclusion of conditions such as depression, delirium and normal changes of ageing. The accurate diagnosis of dementia allows the institution of early and appropriate management and support of affected people and their families.
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To study the frequency of negative comments (badmouthing) made by teaching hospital specialists about metropolitan and rural general practitioners (GPs) and by GPs about hospital specialists and the impact of these comments on medical students' intended career choice. In this study badmouthing is defined as unwarranted, negative, denigrating, even sarcastic comments made by doctors about other doctors. ⋯ A low level of badmouthing by all medical disciplines is an unattractive part of the learning milieu of medical students. In this study it had an influence on the current career choices of 21% of participating students.