Dancing around Elephants

Dancing around elephants.

Most nephrologists are now accepting that there are similar general clinical outcomes between hemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. Patient selection had played a role in the different earlier versus later outcomes, but these cofounders are understoodand reconciled, and theyhelpedus conclude that, for clinical outcomes, these modalities are similar. Thus, the choice of therap...

Dancing eyes and dancing feet syndrome.

133 Introduction Opsoclonus-myoclonus is a rare neurological disorder characterised by intention tremor, unsteady gait, myoclonus and opsoclonus. Lethargy and irritability are also described. The abnormal eye movements are distinctive, being multidirectional and of high amplitude. Its recognition helps in the diagnosis of this clinical syndrome, the correct identification of which leads to the ...

Dancing around infertility: the use of metaphors in a complex medical situation.

People use metaphors to cognitively frame their experiences as well as to explain those experiences to others, especially in complex medical situations. However, previous research has not fully explored the extent to which metaphors may be helpful or harmful to achieving well-being. This investigation fills this gap by identifying and explaining metaphor use in the context of infertility. Guide...

Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants

Yellow elephants are slow. A major reason is that they consume their inputs entirely before responding to an elephant rider’s orders. Some clever riders have trained their yellow elephants to only consume parts of the inputs before responding. However, the teaching time to make an elephant do that is high. So high that the teaching lessons often do not pay off. We take a different approach. We ...

Dancing medicine.