Form of address: an addition to history taking?

Abstract

In the New World motorways are much safer than in the United Kingdom, and the Americans have recently and sensibly, on the basis of traffic density, distinguished between rural and urban motorways. By this distinction nearly all Britain's motorways, and certainly the M25, would fall into the urban category and have a speed limit of 55 miles/h (88 km/h). Also the dangerous large range of speeds seen on British motorwavs is unknown in the New World and would be aggravated by an increase in the speed limit. I think that the speed limit should be reduced to 62 5 miles/h (100 km/h), as it is in Canada, and short white cross stripes painted on the lanes every 60 yards (54 m) to give drivers and the police an easily discernible indication of when thev are within the safe distance of the vehicle ahead. At this speed each car would be using about 55% of the fuel per mile that it would use at 84 miles/h. The percentage of deaths from road traffic accidents is also a dangerously misleading measure when comparing the safety of motorways and ordinary roads. There are no pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders, etc, on motorways, who account for an appreciable proportion of deaths from road traffic accidents. A more objective assessment would be to compare the mortality of motorists per hour spent on motorways and other roads. These

ReCAP: Perspectives of Patients, Caregivers, and Medical Staff on Greetings in Oncology Practice: A Prospective Survey

“…Our finding that the preference for being addressed formally versus informally differed by country of birth, age, and sex is consistent with three other studies that addressed the same issue among patients visiting a primary care physician, surgery patients, and inpatients at a general hospital. 1,[3][4][5] Notably, these studies were conducted in societies (United States and United Kingdom) characterized by being more formal than Israeli and Mediterranean societies, suggesting that the need for an informal, familiar environment in patient-medical staff interaction crosses cultural borders.…”