“But I Wasn’t There!”

"There but for the grace of God go I...".

The need for due process and the desire to achieve efficiency is an everpersistent tension in administrative law. With the amazing growth of the administrative state, striking the right balance has proven difficult. The Supreme Court’s jurisprudence in this area has attempted to guarantee due process while taking into consideration the practical difficulties of maintaining an administrative sta...

Consciousness: Here, There but Not Everywhere

The science of consciousness has made great strides by focusing on the behavioral and neuronal correlates of experience. However, correlates are not enough if we are to understand even basic neurological fact; nor are they of much help in cases where we would like to know if consciousness is present: patients with a few remaining islands of functioning cortex, pre-term infants, non-mammalian sp...

Acute stent thrombosis: rare but still there.

Since the first intracoronary stent implantation, the design and ease of use of coronary stents have continued to improve, and the indications for their use have continued to expand from bailout procedures to now-routine implantation in patients with myocardial infarction. Coronary stenting reduces the risk of restenosis and the number of revascularizations compared to balloon angioplasty, but,...

There but for the grace of GOD.

The number of deaths reported as associated with anaesthesia in England and Wales has fallen dramatically during the past 20 years. But the problem of cardiac arrest occurring while the patient is under the care of the anaesthetist, though small, remains a serious one because few such patients survive, even with serious complications, and the question of litigation may arise. A series of 66 cas...

But there is a practical side.