COINCIDENCES IN MEDICAL PRACTICE.

Unexpected medical coincidences require systematic and careful strategies: an example.

In a cohort of 14 children with identical cardiac xenografts, two boys developed acute myeloid leukaemia 11 and 16 months respectively after the operation. A dedicated working group designed a scheme intending to take care of all aspects of the situation. This article focuses on preferred strategies towards patients, relatives, government, and the media. We did not find any substantial evidence...

Remodified Bessel Functions via Coincidences and Near Coincidences

By considering a particular probabilistic scenario associated with coincidences, we are led to a family of functions akin to the modified Bessel function of the first kind. These are in turn solutions to a certain family of linear differential equations possessing structural similarities to the modified Bessel differential equation. The Stirling number triangle of the second kind arises quite n...

Emergencies in Medical Practice

Medical Practice in Palestine

The first point that impresses the medical man in Palestine is the question of languages. At the last census 110 less than fifteen different mother tongues had to be put down for a group of less than 100 patients and staff, and one never could manage to get through a morning in out-patients without using at least six different languages. In medical work one comes into close touch with doctors f...

Psychiatry in Medical Practice

the concepts and information it presents. Its great weakness lies in the lack of critical appraisal of the methodology of some of the data quoted. Wide-eyed speculation based on single cases are quoted with as much authority as the data of well-controlled experimental studies. Considering the fact that at least 65 per cent of patients coming to the average physician have disease syndromes initi...