‟Deep lexicography” – Fad or Opportunity?

Medical Tourism: A Fad or an Opportunity; Comment on “Patient Mobility in the Global Marketplace: A Multidisciplinary Perspective”

This article is a commentary of an overview on “medical tourism” submitted by Lunt and Marrion, which describes a framework for the study of the issues related to medical tourism. The commentary attempts to differentiate between the current interest in medical tourism and the time-honored and well-established treatment abroad from countries with underdeveloped health systems. The commentary als...

Hypoglycemia, Fact or Fad

With unwarranted enthusiasm, the popular press has embraced hypoglycemia as an explanation for a host of physical ailments. Although this has permitted purveyors of numerous "treatments" to do a brisk business, very little helpful and accurate information has been communicated about hypoglycemia. Lynn Bennion, a Stanford-based clinician, has written a book that provides the general public acces...

medical tourism: a fad or an opportunity; comment on “patient mobility in the global marketplace: a multidisciplinary perspective”

this article is a commentary of an overview on “medical tourism” submitted by lunt and marrion, which describes a framework for the study of the issues related to medical tourism. the commentary attempts to differentiate between the current interest in medical tourism and the time-honored and well-established treatment abroad from countries with underdeveloped health systems. the commentary als...

Sensory integration: fact or fad.

Sensory integration more and more is becoming the panacea for many occupational therapists who treat a variety of disabilities and dysfunctions. The popularity of this treatment method is growing rapidly and was emphasized by Hightower-Vandamm in 1980. She noted that, in the early '70s, 90 percent of her students wanted to work in physical dysfunction and that presently 90 percent wish to work ...

Conformity in nonhuman primates: fad or fact?