Alabama: Commandments, Amendments, and Defendants

The Ten Commandments.

Medical practice: defendants and prisoners.

It is argued in this paper that a doctor cannot serve two masters. The work of the prison medical officer is examined and it is shown that his dual allegiance to the state and to those individuals who are under his care results in activities which largely favour the former. The World Health Organisation prescribes a system of health ethics which indicates, in qualitative terms, the responsibili...

Ten commandments of enzymology, amended.

Reflections on advances and retreats in biochemistry have, over the years, generated several maxims. The late Efraim Racker’s ‘don’t waste clean thinking on dirty enzymes’ has been one of the most durable. On the occasion of a lecture in Jerusalem a decade ago, I framed a list of the ten ‘best’ maxims as ‘commandments’, which were later published as a ‘Guest Commentary’ in the Journal of Bacter...

Ten Commandments of Hypospadias Surgery

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com penile in 77(30%) and proximal Hypospadias in 46(18%) patients. Tubularized incised plate urethroplasty (TIP) by Dr. Warren Snodgrass and Byar’s two stage urethroplasty were the only two basic methods applied. Only 13 patients (5%) of total required two stage repairs. Subsequent 10 years, I operated 512 cases of hypospadias with the Ten Commandments...

Ten Commandments of Formal Methods

0018-9162/06/$20.00 © 2006 IEEE 40 Computer P u b l i s h e d b y t h e I E E E C o m p u t e r S o c i e t y Real engineers use mathematics. Formal methods are the mathematics of software engineering. Therefore, software engineers should use formal methods. Yet even with this elegant simplicity, most projects hold formal methods at arm’s length unless they involve the design and maintenance of...