Another vacation, another medical 'crisis'

The Proton - Spin Crisis : another ABJ anomaly ?

Not just another primary care workforce crisis.

Letters Not just another primary care workforce crisis … There is a baffling disconnect in the position of Irish and Purvis on the primary care workforce crisis. 1 On the one hand, they say: 'The supply of newly qualified GPs is unlikely to match demand without international recruits and returners to the GP workforce.' On the other hand, many readers of this Journal will be astonished to learn ...

Another look at medical error.

Medical error continues to be a topic of discussion. Blaming the physician or nurse for error is too simplistic and may serve to blur larger system problems from being identified and addressed. This article considers recent history of assignment of errors from a quality assurance perspective, multiple paths which result in error, reviewing the 1999 Institute of Medicine report and looking beyon...

Parody: Another Revision

The vast diversity of the proposed definitions of parody, both before and after the twentieth century, can be an emblem of the lack of a thorough agreement amongst the literary critics about the definition of this literary technique (genre?!). While there is not a comprehensive all-accepted definition of parody, modern and postmodern literatures both exhibit a wide application of it. After look...

Why We Do Need Another Medical Journal…

The English word "health" comes from the Old English word hale, meaning "wholeness, a state of being and feeling whole, sound or well" [1]. Hale comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "kailo", meaning "whole, uninjured, of good omen". Kailo comes from the Proto-Germanic root "khalbas", meaning "something (un)divided". [...].