Conduct of doctor: court takes a serious view

Southall is cleared of serious professional conduct.

The child protection paediatrician David Southall has been cleared of serious professional misconduct by the General Medical Council over actions he took in two cases between 13 and 22 years ago. A GMC fitness to practise panel found him not guilty of serious misconduct in keeping special case files separate from hospital medical records on two children without sufficient signposting, and sendi...

The Doctor-Patient Relationship: A Personal View

Serious fungal diseases - a brief Brazilian view

I read with special interest the epidemiological study performed by Klimko et al. with focus on local and invasive fungal infections [IFI] in Russian Federation [1]. Comments are herein done about the Russian recent article, in addition to three previous Brazilian reports of patients with aspergillosis, cryptococcosis, and mucormycosis [14]. Approximately 300 fungal species may cause human dise...

Discourse anslysis of religious' culture's effects on Naser al-Din Shah Qajar's donated rug to Jewish Doctor of Iran's Court

  Iran is an ancient country with very rich culture, art, and history.  People who reside there have different cultures and religions. One of the most important and classical art in Iran is carpet which dates return to many years ago. This art has an appropriate background to presents images and symbols that show beliefs, traditions, social changes, religious thought and etc. By various images...

A Murphological View on Software Measurement: a serious joke or a funny serious thing?

The 30-year experience from the Software Measurement field explains that a strong resistance usually comes from project team members, supposing the real objective is a personal evaluation on their performance and not a neutral measurement for a concrete process improvement. Concurrently, from the middle ‘80s a series of SPI models such as the Software Capability Maturity Model (Sw-CMM) and nowa...