When I grow up, I want to be successful like daddy: I just don't want to be a doctor

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 627-634

  Perler, Bruce A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JOB SATISFACTION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; VASCULAR SURGERY; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; FOREIGN WORKER; HUMAN RELATION; LIFESTYLE; MANPOWER; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; STATISTICS; SURGERY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAREER CHOICE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; FEMALE; FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; JOB SATISFACTION; LIFE STYLE; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33847130930     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2006.10.039     Document Type: Editorial

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