Do criminals go to the hospital when they are shot?

Do criminals go to the hospital when they are shot?

OBJECTIVES To determine whether criminals go to the hospital when they are shot. Such information is needed to check on the accuracy of using hospital emergency room data to estimate non-fatal gunshot wounds. SETTING Five jails across the US. METHODS A survey of inmates being booked into jail, administered by in-house health care staff. RESULTS Over 90% of over 300 criminals who had been ...

They really do go.

While it is technically correct that 70-80% of rural or underserved origin candidates do not go ‘outside’ current concentrations of physicians and health resources, the appropriate statistical analysis reveals that they really do go at rates 2, 4, 6, or 10 times higher than the typical medical students. Others also go, such as the 75% of rural physicians who have urban origins or those with top...

Are Those with Darker Personality Traits more Willing to Corrupt When They Feel Anxious?

This unprecedented research endeavors to investigate the relationship between dark personality traits (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) and corruption intention through the mediation of anxiety.  Based on the resource conservation theory, it is hypothesized that those higher in dark personality traits are more inclined to corrupt when they feel anxious. Having collected data...

Diagnoses are Stereotypes: Go Where They Are.

The timing of hibernation in Tasmanian echidnas: why do they do it when they do?

We investigated the patterns of hibernation and arousals in seven free-ranging echidnas Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus (two male, five female) in Tasmania using implanted temperature data loggers. All echidnas showed a 'classical' pattern of mammalian hibernation, with bouts of deep torpor interrupted by periodic arousals to euthermia (mean duration 1.04+/-0.05 (n=146). Torpor bout length incre...