Broken Justice

Broken heart: Broken mind.

The increased frequency of sudden cardiac death after earthquakes and bombings has long proposed that emotional distress plays a role in acute coronary syndromes and arrhythmias. Since the 1960s, several controlled, prospective, epidemiological studies have reported emotional distress as a major risk factor for the onset and worsening of coronary heart disease (CHD) [1]. The Interheart study, a...

Social Justice Through Civil Justice

Distributive Justice in Pharmaceutical Torts: Justice Where Justice Is Due?

Ongoing tort reform efforts attest to the significant burden that medical liability imposes on the health care system. General attempts to curb excesses can narrow socioeconomic disparities, but as Clark Havighurst and Barak Richman observe, such measures may leave intact some of the regressive characteristics of the framework they supplant. Therefore, it seems appropriate to question whether t...

A Broken Metallic Tracheostomy Tube

Broken Symmetries

have large errors, are in complete agreement with the physical-region plots obtained by other authors" as well as our own I Fig. 7(a)j. The results given here support the general validity of the Chew-Low technique. They illustrate the strong statistical requirements to which a meaningful application of this technique is subjected; they also show that pole effects seen in the physical region are...