Are you kidding, doc?

Are you kidding, doc?

Vision therapy: are you kidding me? Problems with current studies.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Orthoptic exercises are routinely prescribed to treat symptoms of convergence insufficiency (CI). The type and duration of treatment tends to vary among providers as until recently, few strong randomized control studies have addressed the efficacy of convergence insufficiency management. The aim of this paper is to address these studies and discuss their limitations. ME...

Child-resistant containers: are we kidding ourselves?

A 20-month-old child was accidentally poisoned after biting through the bottom of a medicine container and ingesting the tablets inside. Consequently a study was carried out to determine the force required to fracture 20 randomly selected 25 and 32 ml polystyrene containers to see whether this exceeded the bite force of a child's jaw. Tests were performed at displacement rates of 0.5 and 10 cm/...

Assessing effective physician-patient communication skills: “Are you listening to me, doc?”

Received: December 17, 2015 • Revised: January 12, 2016 • Accepted: January 18, 2016 Corresponding Author: Anthony C. Berman (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4385-1097) Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First Street SW, Rochester 55905, MN, USA Tel: +1.507.288.4939 Fax: +1.507.538.7234 email: [email protected] Korean J Med Educ 2016 Jun; 28(2): 243-249. http://dx.doi.org/10.3946/kjme.2016.21 eISSN: 2...

You Are What You Eat ?

eat’, both in terms of portions and composition. When we think of this axiom, we conjure visions of ample food portions, rich in energy, high in fat, and associated with persons of equally ample body size proportions and body fat composition. However, these relationships are more complex than they may appear at first glance. The physical, physiological and behavioural manifestation of the compl...