Myths in General Surgeons Working at Muhammad Medical College Hospital and other hospitals of Mirpurkhas.
Main Article Content
Abstract
Background: According to the Webster’s New International Dictionary, a myth is “A belief given uncritical acceptance by the members of a group especially in support of existing or traditional practices.” Clinical decisions
should, as far as possible, be evidence based. So runs the current clinical dogma.
Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted among the surgeons of MMCH and other hospitals of
Mirpurkhas. Data was collected with the help of pre checked questionnaire which was developed by Jefferson
scale.15 common surgical myths were selected from “PRACTICE COMMENTARY OF SURGICAL ROUNDS”
published in January, 2004
Results: Study was conducted among the 21 General surgeons of MMCH and other hospitals of Mirpurkhas
showed high incidence of myth following, ranging from 14.2 to 85.7.
Conclusion: On the basis of our study we conclude- ed that there is resistance to applying the guidelines among
surgeons.
Key Words: Surgical myths, Surgeons, Evidence based practices, MMCH.
Downloads
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Journal of Muhammad Medical College (J Muhammad Med Coll) belief that all researches are basically conducted for the benefit of humanity. Research is the product of an investment by society and consequently its fruits should be returned in a transparent fashion to all humankind without any discrimination.
Journal of Muhammad Medical College is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or / institution. When used non-commercially all users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full text articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or author as long as original author(s) are acknowledged.
Journal of Muhammad Medical College operate under Creative Common License CC-BY-SA that allow reproduction of articles free of charge, for non-commercial use only and with the appropriate citation information. All authors publishing with Journal of Muhammad Medical College accept these as the terms of publication.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License