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C Egelhoff

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PubMed1985

Hallucinations of widowhood.

Widowed residents of two nursing homes who were oriented to person, time, and place were interviewed to determine the extent to which they had hallucinatory experiences of their deceased spouse. Fifty-two interviews were completed with 46 widows and six widowers. Results are reported for the widows. Twenty-eight (61%) of the widows reported hallucinatory experiences of their deceased spouse. Twenty-four (86%) of the widows described the experiences as good or helpful. Thirteen (46%) reported that the experiences continue to happen. Nineteen (54%) of the widows had never discussed the experiences with anyone before this study. These results are surprisingly similar to previously published findings by Rees in Wales and suggest that these experiences are more common in the United States than has been recognized.

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PubMed1985

Physician decision making over the telephone.

Physician decision-making behaviors were evaluated for 31 telephone encounters between trained patient simulators and 9 first-year residents, 11 third-year residents, and 8 practicing physicians on after-hours call. The following trends occur as physicians become more experienced: mean call length decreases, less time is spent on diagnosis, fewer diagnostic questions are asked, greater time is spent on management, and diagnostic reasoning becomes more intuitive. These findings suggest that previous models of good telephone decision making, which focused on empirical data collection, may not represent the process used by experienced physicians.

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PubMed1984

Neonatal circumcision: when is the decision made?

A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 277 new mothers to determine when the decision for neonatal circumcision is made. Seventy-eight percent of the women sampled were in favor of neonatal circumcision even before becoming pregnant. Over one half (56 percent) of the sample had decided before becoming pregnant that they would have their sons circumcised. Only 7 percent of the mothers made the decision after delivery. The circumcision status of the women's mates was a significant factor in making the decision for white women but not for black women. Sixty-one percent of all the women tried to learn more about circumcision before deciding. The most influential person in helping these women make the decision about circumcision was the husband.

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