Polski merkuriusz lekarski : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego
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Pol. Merkur. Lekarski · Mar 2003
Case Reports[Histiocytosis X of temporal bone in a 5 year old boy].
Histiocytosis X or Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a disease including three less distinctive and overlapping conditions called eosinophilic granuloma (EG), Hand-Schüller-Christian (HSC) disease and Letterer-Siwe (LS) disease. A high index of suspicion is required to diagnose histiocytosis, especially when an ear disease is refractory to medical treatment. ⋯ Bone destruction involved temporal bone and zygomatic process. The role of imaging diagnosis in evaluation of lesion extent with special consideration of CT is presented.
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Pol. Merkur. Lekarski · Mar 2003
[Empathy and motives in choosing medical studies as possible predictors of future physician's career performance].
The article presents an evaluation of empathy level and motives of choosing medical studies as possible predictors of future physicians' career performance. The data for the study was collected based on biographical-environmental charts from the School of Medicine in Gdańsk and questionnaire forms completed by sixth-year students of the faculty of medicine in 1998-1999. The admission test scores and grades obtained during the studies were correlated to the level of empathy and motives of choosing medical studies among the candidates. ⋯ The motives expressed as "Getting the best marks in biology, chemistry and physics at school" and "Getting the job of high social prestige" were significantly correlated with the grades during the first two years of studies. The present admission test seems to be good enough to predict the future students' performance. But it also seems that tools are lacking identifying who wold become a good doctor in future.