Can Debriefing Contribute to Improving Our Humanity?

Can We Add Auricular Composite Graft to Our Rhinoplasty Armamentarium?

BACKGROUND The ala of the nose, with its particular texture and characteristics, poses both aesthetically and functionally intriguing challenges and is rather problematic regarding choices for reconstructive methods. Both flaps and grafts have been used to restore natural structure of nasal ala. The present study summarizes a ten-year experience of reconstructive surgery using small composite...

Preserving Our Humanity as Therapists

Psychotherapists have traditionally embraced core values and beliefs that differ significantly from many values and beliefs that pervade contemporary, commercially oriented Western cultures. With their clients, therapists often question or challenge the culture’s materialism, consumerism, appeals to vanity and greed, disdain of dependency and vulnerability, and abetment of narcissistic entitlem...

How Cell Biologists Can Contribute to Improving Cancer Outcomes

It is now clear that there are hundreds of different types of cancer. This is a dramatic departure from the prevailing view in 1971 when the U.S. “war on cancer” was first launched and it was widely believed that cancers had a common cause and would likewise have a common cure. Knowledge of tumor complexity has fueled optimism for the development of targeted and personalized treatments based on...

Maintaining The Humanity of Our Models

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) has been a major research interest in computer science for the better part of the last few decades. However, all too recently, both AI and ML have rapidly grown to be media frenzies, pressuring companies and researchers to claim they use these technologies. As ML continues to percolate into the layman's life, we, as computer scientists and ...

How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health: A Response to Gagnon and Colleagues