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Charles K. Francis
Researcher at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Publications - 4
Citations - 79
Charles K. Francis is an academic researcher from Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Racism. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications receiving 72 citations.
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The medical ethos and social responsibility in clinical medicine.
TL;DR: The challenge facing the medical profession in the new millennium is to establish an equilibrium between the responsibility to assure quality health care for the individual patient while affecting societal changes to achieve "health for all."
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The risk of sudden death in sickle cell trait: Noninvasive assessment of cardiac response to exercise
TL;DR: The data indicate that healthy subjects with SCT do not have an increased incidence of exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias, myocardial ischemia, or diminished ventricular function compared to normals.
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Medical ethos and social responsibility in clinical medicine
TL;DR: Reflection on the origins of the medical ethos and its relevance to postmodern medicine suggests a need to balance medicine’s devotion to the well-being of the patient and the primacy of the doctor-patient relationship against the need to meet the health care needs of society.
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Hypertension detection, treatment and control: a call to action for cardiovascular specialists.
Daniel Levy,C. Noel Bairey Merz,Robert J. Cody,Fetnat M. Fouad-Tarazi,Charles K. Francis,Marc A. Pfeffer,Neal A. Scott,H.J.C. Swan,Malcolm P Taylor,Myron H. Weinberger +9 more
TL;DR: In the United States, hypertension affects about 25% of the adult population in the USA and about 50 million people in the UK as mentioned in this paper, and great strides have been made in improving awareness, treatment and control of high blood pressure.