Don’t stressor the small stuff

E-Micropayments Sweat the Small Stuff

Dysnatremia and mortality: do sweat the small stuff...

Marked dysnatremia is associated with increased mortality in patients admitted to intensive care. However, new evidence suggests that even mild deviations from normal and simple variability of sodium values may also be significant. Should these findings prompt clinicians to re-evaluate the approach to fluid management in this setting? Sodium disorders, on one hand, are known to result from over...

The soft stuff is really the hard stuff.

Complex pieces of machinery require regular systematic preventative maintenance to sustain their high-performance standards. The same is true with the complex human "machinery" that runs medical group practices. The behaviors, skills, and attitudes that are often referred to as the "soft 'touchy-feely' stuff" are not a luxury. Quite the contrary--they are essential to achieving and maintaining ...

The right stuff

Everyone seems to think they can tell the few good scientists from the mass of white-coated wannabes. We all have our own favourites, but generally speaking, people agree that a few scientists have got what it takes to make a Nobel laureate, while the majority just haven’t. Having what it takes doesn’t necessarily correlate with success. Another popular absolute is that some successful people a...

Looking at the Hard Stuff

Determining how computer graphics will evolve requires a good understanding of both software and hardware advances. As a software person, I tend to pay less attention to hardware than I should. I’ve fi nally realized that all the software I’ve written over the past few decades relies on hardware. And how my software behaves changes dramatically when my hardware changes. This issue’s column is d...