Tough Talk helps people be gentle
Some people at the University of Washington and colleagues from around the country run a wonderful website called Tough Talk: Helping Doctors Approach Difficult Conversations. They call it a “toolbox for medical educators” who want to teach about ethics and communication. Topics include: Common teaching challenges plus tips for recovering from them • Optimizing small [...]
Operative Obstetrics, 2nd ed. 2008
Operative Obstetrics John Patrick O′Grady, Martin L. Gimovsky, Lucy A. Bayer-Zwirello, Kevin Giordano ISBN-10: 0521862485 ISBN-13: 978-0521862486 Cambridge University Press The ten years since the first edition of Operative Obstetrics have witnessed considerable changes in obstetric practice. There has been a continued increase in the rate of cesarean delivery, and the use of minimally-invasive surgery [...]
Even Worse than it Appears
Having recently published a post on fluoride and dental fluorosis I was feeling pretty good about myself for getting out there and educating people on this topic, while to wrap things up I wanted to contact Dr. David Kennedy, DDS whose photo of dental fluorosis I had used in the post to make sure that [...]
Special issue: Nanotechnology and social cohesion
International Journal of Nanotechnology 7(2/3) 2010 The ‘enterprise of science′: construction and reconstruction of social capital around nano R&D Ordering technology, excluding society: the division of labour and sociotechnical order in images of converging technologies Nanoscale science and technology and social cohesion Identifying recent trends in nanomedicine development A comparison of human capital levels and [...]
