“Be Confident”, “Creative” and “Careful”: Advice from Multiracial Adults

Multiracial Children's and Adults' Categorizations of Multiracial Individuals.

Research has explored how multiracial individuals are categorized by monoracial individuals, but has not yet explored how they are categorized by multiracial individuals themselves. We examined how multiracial children (4-9 years) and adults categorized multiracial targets (presented with and without parentage information). When parentage information was provided, multiracial targets were more ...

Correcting hypotension: be careful!

To cite: Foran E, Abkur TM. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2015-212904 DESCRIPTION A 42-year-old woman presented with a 2-day history of vomiting. She was drowsy, dehydrated, tachycardic and hypotensive with a blood pressure (BP) of 52/37. The immediate management included infusion of 4 L of normal saline and inotropic support. Investigations sho...

Let's be careful out there.

If we are to change the way these services are regulated, we first must know what the trade-offs are. Consumers need to know what they are giving up if they exchange the certainty of their regulated, monopoly provider for the harsh world of the competitive marketplace. Make no mistake, there is a vast difference in cultures between a monopoly, regulated utility run with the ratepayer uppermost ...

Can We Be Too Careful?

Breast-feeding and anemia: let's be careful.

T he study of anemia and iron deficiency in 9-month-old James Bay Cree infants reported in this issue (page 323) 1 raises 2 interesting and provocative questions. First, what is anemia in this age group? Second , how well is a breast-fed 9-month-old infant protected against iron deficiency? Commonly used norms were derived from populations of nonindigenous white children living near sea level, ...