Bloody Paperwork

Pummelled by paperwork.

Most academic research laboratories are in a precarious position. Everyone—from university presidents to politicians to the public—expects them to come up with new insights that can be exploited for economic growth. However, without sufficient resources, few laboratories are able to do so, and the growing competition for limited research money makes it increasingly difficult to secure adequate ...

First : Cut the Paperwork

In our national debate on health-care reform, an ethical climate is developing that denies whole categories of health-care services to one group of citizens or another. In response to this disturbing trend, a leading group of ethicists and physicians, chaired by the author, gathered to suggest a new moral guideline for health-care reform. In our statement, “Core Values in Health-Care Reform: A ...

Bloody Funny Wasps

Following review of formicid characters a new model for evolution of ant eusociality is presented. This “semisocial ancestry hypothesis” has the following steps: (1) Ants are descended from a solitary wasp which accumulated and collectively reared its brood in acellular nests (without individual brood cells). Metapleural glands delivering antibiotic compounds evolved in adults as a correlated a...

Paperwork and general practice: where to next?

John Aloizos is a part-time GP in Brisbane and is currently Chairman of the Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council, and a member of the Australian Health Information Council, where he Chairs the Electronic Decision Support Steering Committee. He is a former member of the General Practice Computing Group Management Committee and the General Practice Partnership Advisory Council. He was the i...

Effort reporting: government drops much-criticized paperwork.