A Confidentiality Clause or an Oath of Fealty?
The advancement of modern scientific medicine depends on the search for and dissemination of truth. Academic medicine, like the rest of academia, ought to be based on openness, transparency, and academic freedom. The 1940 American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure opened with: The common good depends upon [...]
Why ask on Yahoo answers what a dental procedure costs?
Do you realize that this site is viewed all over the US and outside the US as well? Someone in Podunk, Arkansas can tell you that it cost $50 to pull a tooth, but if you live in Dallas, Texas, do you really think that is inacurate? Dentists all over the world charge different fees. [...]
Cuba defeats Venezuela 9-1
Norge Luis VeraIn the Friday inaugural game at the pre-world and pre-panamerican baseball tournament currently being played in Puerto Rico, Cuba defeated Venezuela 9-1. The winning pitcher for the criollos was Norge Luis Vera. Cuban catcher, Ariel Pestano, went three for five. Cuba plays today against the Netherlands Antilles, with Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez as the [...]
More on the differential diagnosis of wide complex tachycardia
A commenter on my last post on this topic pointed me to a search that uncovered two interesting and helpful papers I was not aware of. This review traces the history of methods distinguishing between VT and aberrancy on the surface electrocardiogram. The tried and true method, which assesses for AV dissociation (including that evidenced [...]
Special issue: Emergency communications and alerting (Wireless RERC conference issue: Making emergency information accessible)
International Journal of Emergency Management 7(1) 2010 Papers from the Wireless Emergency Communications State of Technology Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 21-23 September 2009. Communicating critical information using mobile phones to populations with special needs Communication in times of natural or man-made emergencies: the potential of speech-generating devices Evaluation of emergency egress information for [...]
