A Prophecy of Caesar's Murder

A Calendar of Murder

Immediately prior to publication, one of the authors of this book gave a public 'ecture entitled "Psychopathology and Homicide" to a medical audience. As a result ?f this, certain of the more informed, and therefore be it acknowledged, more sensitive doctors among his hearers came to the conclusion that both his own views and those to be expressed in the book would be that "many psychiatric pat...

The Prophecy of Undo

Prophecy variables are auxiliary program variables whose values are defined in terms of current program state and future behavior. This paper explains their relevance to reasoning about systems with “undo” operations, and develops techniques that facilitate their use.

A female mass murder.

A case study of a 44-year-old woman who committed a mass murder is presented. Following a chronic course of psychotic deterioration, and a likely diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia that remained untreated, she returned to her workplace after 3 years from her termination and killed seven people and herself. Her history is reconstructed through investigation of primary and secondary source mater...

Prelude, prophecy, and promise.

Predicting prognosis in cardiac surgery: a prophecy?

Physicians need to make predictions on the prognosis of a treatment that helps them in the choice of therapy. Medicine used to be much more subjective than in the current evidence-based era. Shared decision-making, where physicians and patients both participate in deciding on choices for therapy, is also more common [1]. Clinical prediction models like EuroSCORE may provide the evidence-based i...