Communicating risk: But does it work, Doctor?

Does It Work?

T he study reported by Hess et all in this issue of Circulation presents a timely opportunity to discuss several issues that are directly relevant to use of angiographic methods for estimating myocardial perfusion. These issues are motivation for use of angiographic methods, limitations of the gold standard used, limitations of the angiographic method, limitations of the conceptual model used a...

The doctor personality--does it exist?

For several decades Norwegian doctors have been selected on the basis of one characteristic – the ability to gain good grades. Being admitted to medical school has required an almost comically high average grade from upper secondary education. This has proved to be useful to the public health service: doctors’ surgeries have been inhabited by competent and industrious individuals. Norwegian med...

Incremental Inductive Verification , Does It Work ? Does It Scale ?

Powerful Multicore platforms are now widespread and promise to naturally scale performance by running programs in parallel. Except for optimizing one’s code, this became the only way to speed up programs. As a result, a great amount of work focuses on coming up with clever ways to run programs in parallel. This thesis explores the applicability and the performance of an incremental verification...

Allergen avoidance: does it work?

The first recorded example of allergen avoidance in the treatment of allergic disorders dates from the 16th century. The Italian physician Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576) was invited to Scotland by John Hamilton, Archbishop of St Andrews (and brother of the Regent), to give advice on the treatment of his asthma. Cardano recommended that the Archbishop should get rid of his feather bedding, which w...

Spirometric screening: Does it work?