An obstinate patient

Obstinate Vomiting in Pregnancy

I am induced to make some remarks upon this subject of obstinate vomiting in pregnancy, from the fact that within the last five years three cases of albuminuria during gestation have come under my observation, in all of which untoward results occurred, and in two of these obstinate vomiting was the prominent symptom. In one of the cases?the only one of which I mean to give complete details, the...

Obstinate Gambling Addiction

Some authors regard gambling as an addiction. Detailed psychiatric examination revealed obsessive-compulsive syndrome in this patient. He was treated systematically with individual psychotherapy and sertraline from low doses up to the maximal dose (i.e. about 200 mg daily). A complete remission of the obsessive-compulsive syndrome was achieved. A number of indirect proofs demonstrate a signific...

Fifty Years of Fisheries Management m an Obstinate Prairie Lake

Death and miasma in Victorian London: an obstinate belief.

The obstinate maternal mortality ratio for Malawi: an Insult beyond the obstetrician! 'A Cri de Coeur'.

This kind of MMR is almost unbelievable and certainly unacceptable! The more developed countries have MMRs of around 10/100,000 and most countries in the region have rates of around 200/100,000!2 It is a reasonable question to ask whether an MMR as high as this is something to which the health service has actually contributed in some way. It does not seem to make evolutionary sense to have so m...