Can HIV Be Cured and Should We Try?

Careers. At least we should try.

LOOKING BACK over the years it is fairly obvious that there has been little or no career guidance in medicine. Apart from the odd chat with a senior often not much senior to the young graduate himself nothing was readily available to the newly qualified doctor about future prospects in the great variety of medical fields prospects, that is, of training needs facilities or vacancies. Yet little ...

Writing for the AAPG Bulletin : We ’ re not literary giants , but we can try to be

John C. Lorenz is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, where he has worked on sedimentary and natural-fracture reservoir characterization issues. His work has focused on the Rocky Mountain region but has extended to reservoirs in other parts of the world. Lorenz earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University and joined Sandia in 1981. Previously he was with the P...

Yes, We Can! (Should We?).

We Can, but Should We?

We can, but should we? After recently reflecting upon our profession as pediatric critical care physicians , I concluded that this one complex question gets asked many times throughout the day – or at least it should. A recent report discussed an emerging paradigm in pediatric critical care medicine (1). With more and more chronic patients filling our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), perha...

Noninvasive ventilation for acute lung injury: how often should we try, how often should we fail?

The selection of patients with acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS) to receive noninvasive ventilation (NIV) is challenging, partly because there are few reliable selection criteria. The study by Rana and colleagues in the previous issue of Critical Care identifies metabolic acidosis and a lower oxygenation index as predictors of NIV failure, although it is unable to...