44 Primary percutaneous intervention: have we taken our eye off the medicine ball?

Don't take your eye off the ball.

Improvement in the professional career development of junior doctors is dependent on the promised expansion of the consultant grade. The government and its advisors should concentrate on achieving this goal before all others.

What have we learnt from our mistakes?

The authors discuss the general steps involved in good decision making and use those steps to organize results from behavioral decision research, illustrating some of the challenges in making important choices. Framing effects, self serving biases, and context effects are a few of the errors and biases presented. The authors also discuss a variety of techniques for reducing biases and errors. T...

do we need an eye-shield in our cath-labs?

The sedentary (r)evolution: Have we lost our metabolic flexibility?

During the course of evolution, up until the agricultural revolution, environmental fluctuations forced the human species to develop a flexible metabolism in order to adapt its energy needs to various climate, seasonal and vegetation conditions. Metabolic flexibility safeguarded human survival independent of food availability. In modern times, humans switched their primal lifestyle towards a co...

do we have to consider the method of opium usage in our study?

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