Cinderella and Britain

Cinderella of the cinderella services

The General Medical Council, which once found itself in court only when a doctor appealed to the privy council against a finding of serious professional misconduct, is facing a growing readiness of dissatisfied doctors to mount legal challenges to its practices and rulings. Dr Sidney Gee, the Harley Street slimming doctor cleared ofcharges ofmisconduct last April, started the trend when he took...

Cinderella Strings

We investigate recent claims concerning a new class of cosmic string solutions in the Weinberg-Salam model. They have the general form of previously discussed semi-local and electroweak strings, but are modified by the presence of a non-zero W-condensate in the core of the string. We explicitly construct such solutions for arbitrary values of the winding number N. We then prove that they are ga...

Cinderella revisited.

OBJECTIVE To examine the references to Cinderella in medical literature. DESIGN Analysis of papers published in the past 50 years that mention Cinderella. RESULTS The trend for use of Cinderella as a metaphor in medical publications is increasing exponentially. Five separate themes emerged: neglect, identity, transformation, exhaustion, and the mixed metaphor. CONCLUSIONS The medical use ...

Cinderella had a champion.

Society today expects the physician of the future to concern himself increasingly with social justice, the environment and government regulations. However, when attempts are made to deal with these subjects they usually focus on the 'here and now' and not the historical underpinning. The student, practitioner and public, often through the media, marvel at the contemporary medical scene with its...

Still the Cinderella