A distributable German clinical corpus containing cardiovascular clinical routine doctor’s letters by Phillip Richter-Pechanski, Philipp Wiesenbach, Dominic M. Schwab, Christina Kiriakou, Mingyang He, Michael M. Allers, Anna S. Tiefenbacher, Nicola Kunz, Anna Martynova, Noemie Spiller, Julian Mierisch, Florian Borchert, Charlotte Schwind, Norbert Frey, Christoph Dieterich, Nicolas A. Geis

“…CARDIO:DE encompasses 500 clinical routine German doctor’s letters from Heidelberg University Hospital, which were manually annotated. …”
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Inspirational women honoured by Chow, Tan Sin

“…TWO outstanding women were conferred the Honorary Doctor of Letters degree during the 7th convocation ceremony of Wawasan Open University (WOU) in Penang.…”
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Inspirational women honoured by Chow, Tan Sin

“…TWO outstanding women were conferred the Honorary Doctor of Letters degree during the 7th convocation ceremony of Wawasan Open University (WOU) in Penang.…”
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Outline of an intellectual biography of Professor Waldemar Dutkiewicz (1939–2007) by Paweł Grzybek

“…At the Academy of Physical Education in Warsaw he received his Doctor of Letters (habilitation) degree in the field of physical education in 1986. …”
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Counterpoints of Modern Phraseology. To the Anniversary of Prof. V.M. Mokienko by Alexander Bierich, Olga V. Lomakina, Elena K. Nikolaeva, Elena I. Seliverstova, Ludmila I. Stepanova

“…The paper is timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the birth of Valery M. Mokienko, Doctor of Letters, Professor of Slavic Philology, Philology Department, St Petersburg State University, Honorary Chairman of the Phraseological Commission of the International Committee of Slavists. …”
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Medicine and narration in the eighteenth century

“…Medical storytelling: case studies and anecdotes<br/> Alexandre Wenger, From medical case to narrative fiction: Diderot’s <em>La Religieuse</em><br/> Sophie Vasset, How to relate a medical case: the controversy about John Ranby’s <em>Narrative of the last illness of the earl of Orford</em> (1745) <br/> II. The doctor’s letters: epistolary narration<br/> Philip Rieder, Writing to fellow physicians: literary genres and medical questions in Louis Odier’s (1748-1817) correspondence<br/> David Shuttleton, ‘Not the meanest part of my works and experience’: Dr George Cheyne’s correspondence with Samuel Richardson<br/> Hélène Dachez and Sophie Vasset, Clementina’s disease and polyphonic narration in Samuel Richardson’s <em>Sir Charles Grandison</em> (1754) <br/> III. …”

An email-based intervention to improve the number and timeliness of letters sent from the hospital outpatient clinic to the general practitioner: A pair-randomized controlled trial... by Stephanie Medlock, Juliette L Parlevliet, Danielle Sent, Saeid Eslami, Marjan Askari, Derk L Arts, Joost B Hoekstra, Sophia E de Rooij, Ameen Abu-Hanna

“…Letters from the hospital to the general practitioner are important for maintaining continuity of care. Although doctors feel letters are important, they are often not written on time. …”
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Benzocarta: intervención mínima para la desprescripción de benzodiacepinas en pacientes con insomnio by Mikel Baza Bueno, Elena Ruiz de Velasco Artaza, Julia Fernández Uria, Ana Gorroñogoitia Iturbe

“…Method: A before-after study without control group performed in primary care in May 2016. 1582 patients who took a single daily dose of benzodiazepines as hypnotic for more than 3 months were sent a personalized letter from their family doctor. The letter contained information about the risks of long-term benzodiazepine consumption and the recommendation to discontinue them with a gradual drop protocol (Benzoletter). …”
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