Chase Lake Pelicans Make a Comeback

many drops make a lake

the desire and drive for excellence in any endeavor in life requires an effort from the individual; in addition it requires a constellation of features around such individuals that help them to become successful. for surgeons, it is the operating room staff, the administrative and medical assistants and our residents and fellows. however, perhaps the most important contribution to a physician’s...

Comeback victory.

Whale comeback

Last month I came across a folder of papers I had written at the age of 16 for my high school English class. This occasion, in some ways like Proust’s madeleine, triggered recollections of how I, as a 16 year-old, framed the thoughts I had about what I wanted to do with my life. One of those early papers was about Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken. I remember not terribly liking the poem. But the...

Coal Poised for a Comeback?

Agricultural animal research has been immensely successful over the past century in developing technology and methodologies that have dramatically enhanced production efficiency of the beef, dairy, swine, poultry, sheep, and aquaculture industries. In the past two decades, molecular biology has changed the face of agricultural animal research, primarily in the arena of genomics and the relative...

Is chloramphenicol making a comeback?

BACKGROUND Due to increasing antimicrobial resistance there has been renewed interest in old drugs that have fallen into disuse because of toxic side effects. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the susceptibility profile, in our hospital, of Enterobacteriaceae and Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates to chloramphenicol and to compare them with the susceptibility to amoxicillin-clavulanate. METHODS All iso...