2012
DOI: 10.1590/s2237-93632012000200003
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View of the Public Health System users regarding proctology

Abstract: Proctology is a specialty of extreme importance due to the high prevalence of anorectal diseases in the population. Despite this fact and its history from the origin of humanity, it is marked by insufficient knowledge, prejudice and teasing. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the degree of knowledge about Proctology, obtaining data, which may guide and emphasize the need for campaigns to disseminate the specialty. METHOD: An ecological study was conducted on the people's degree of knowledge about the specialty of Proctology.… Show more

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“…He also warned the surgeons to avoid cutting the anal sphincter when performing this surgery, because of the risk of alvi incontinence (6,10,11). Oreibasios of Pergamon (325-400), a personal physician and friend of the Emperor Julian the Apostate described in his monumental medical encyclopedia of 70 books, among other things, a surgical treatment of perianal fistulas, in a way that it had been performed in the second century by Greek physicians Antyllus and Helyodorus.…”
Section: Bysantine Medicinementioning
confidence: 99%
“…He also warned the surgeons to avoid cutting the anal sphincter when performing this surgery, because of the risk of alvi incontinence (6,10,11). Oreibasios of Pergamon (325-400), a personal physician and friend of the Emperor Julian the Apostate described in his monumental medical encyclopedia of 70 books, among other things, a surgical treatment of perianal fistulas, in a way that it had been performed in the second century by Greek physicians Antyllus and Helyodorus.…”
Section: Bysantine Medicinementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Resultado semelhante foi encontrado por um grupo de Itajaí (SC), que entrevistou 200 pacientes, em 2008 e 2009, de dois serviços de saúde, e notou que apenas 10,5% conseguiram identificar corretamente a função do coloproctologista. Algumas razões sugeridas pelo grupo para explicar o desconhecimento a respeito da especialidade foram o pouco conhecimento entre os profissionais da área da saúde, o baixo número de encaminhamentos para a coloproctologia e o nível de educação insatisfatório dos entrevistados (Simões, 2012).…”
Section: O Conhecimento Do Coloproctologistaunclassified