Checking our medical privilege

Checking Guideline Conformance of Medical Protocols Using Modular Model Checking

Medical guidelines and protocols are documents aimed at improving the quality of medical care by offering support in medical decision making in the form of management recommendations based on scientific evidence. Whereas medical guidelines are intended for nation-wide use, and thus omit medical management details that may differ among hospitals, medical protocols are aimed at local use within h...

Should our medical records be automatically centralised?

93 Iranian-British Medical Communication Association, jointly hosted by Tehran University of Medical Sciences and the British Council. The conference was busy and interactive, and we were struck by the enthusiasm of the audience, and their desire to increase collaborative links between our two countries. The hospitality we received was extremely generous and indicative of their wish to overcome...

Our heritage: medical education in Milwaukee.

Immune Privilege

T he concept of immune privilege refers to the observation that tissue grafts placed in certain anatomical sites, including the brain and eye, can survive for extended periods of time (1). Immune privilege is thought to reflect an evolutionary adaptation to protect vital structures from damage by inflammatory responses directed against pathogens. It was originally believed that antigens in immu...

Syntactic Privilege

This pape r i s a d d r e s s e d t o the v iew o f Schank and B i r n baum (1981) t h a t s y n t a x has no " p r i v i l e g e d ' p o s i t i o n i n p a r s i n g . E v i d e n t l y what i s meant i s ( a ) t h a t s y n t a c t i c p a r s i n g has no logical or temporal priority over semantic processing, and (b)that syntax has been as@igned attention far out of proportion to its intere...