A declaration of interdependence

Declaration of interdependence: the need for mosaic mentoring in palliative care.

1048 ACADEMIC MEDICINE is an exacting mistress with high and often unreasonable expectations from faculty. For career advancement in academia, faculty has to be expert clinicians, educators, teachers, and administrators working in an increasingly regulated and fiscally incentivised environment. Furthermore, faculty has to belong and show allegiance to a variety of entities like the employing or...

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Editor—We read with interest the article by Quinn and colleagues, which adds to our evolving knowledge of obstetric failed intubation. The paper confirms a lot of our own findings. Some of these findings are replicated in the USA, Brigham’s Women’s Hospital paper. Failed intubation rates are low in countries that have a high rate of general anaesthetic usage, such as South Africa: failed intuba...

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groups. The above mentioned proof-of-concept trials demonstrate that optimal intraoperative management of patients not only have an important role in reducing the incidence of POCD, particularly in elderly patients, but also may lead to an improvement in outcome generally following major surgery. It would be very unfortunate if such an excellent review left anaesthetists feeling that POCD was n...

Istanbul Declaration

2. However, it is with deep disappointment that, at the conclusion of this process, it is clear our voices have not been heard and reflected in the conference outcomes. The negotiations started with analyses of the failings of the Brussels Programme of Action, also reflected in UNCTAD’s LDC report 2010. These showed that development partners failed to deliver their commitments to provide adequa...