Avoiding One and Done

One and Done? Optimal Decisions From Very Few Samples

In many learning or inference tasks human behavior approximates that of a Bayesian ideal observer, suggesting that, at some level, cognition can be described as Bayesian inference. However, a number of findings have highlighted an intriguing mismatch between human behavior and standard assumptions about optimality: People often appear to make decisions based on just one or a few samples from th...

There is one more thing to be done: ECMO!

1Coordinator of the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at PUC-Campinas and the Cardio Surgical Clinic ECMO group of Campinas linked to ELSO, Campinas, SP, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] “ – Unfortunately, it is not possible to get out of cardiopulmonary bypass. We have already tried several times and it is not working. We will have to let the patient die! I will talk to the family...” This is a...

One and done? Equality of opportunity and repeated access to scarce, indivisible medical resources

BACKGROUND Existing ethical guidelines recommend that, all else equal, past receipt of a medical resource (e.g. a scarce organ) should not be considered in current allocation decisions (e.g. a repeat transplantation). DISCUSSION One stated reason for this ethical consensus is that formal theories of ethics and justice do not persuasively accept or reject repeated access to the same medical re...

One and done: how Ohio's one-year, nonrenewable visiting medical faculty certificate is harming the state' s economic recovery.

Mexican Neuroimmunoendocrinology: What is Done and has to be Done

In this special issue of The Open Neuroendocrinology Journal, the reader will find reviewed some of the hottest topics in the field of Neuroendocrine-immune interactions, with emphasis on the work performed by Mexican Scientists in the field, celebrating the launching of The Mexican Society of Neuroimmunoendocrinology. Cabrera-Muñoz et al., describe the role of progesterone (P4) in the infectio...