Dr George McAdam

Obituary of Dr. Angelo Di George

Obituary Dr. Angelo M. DiGeorge a world renowned physician and pediatric endocrinologist, died at age of 88 years, on October 11, 2009 of kidney failure at his home in Philadelphia. Dr. DiGeorge first gained international recognition in the mid-1960’s for his ground breaking discovery of a disorder characterized by congenital absence of the thymus and associated abnormalities. This birth defect...

Dr Robert George (Rob) Jones FRCPsych

The George Eliot/George Henry Lewes Library. An annotated catalogue of their books at Dr. Williams's Library, London

together with a consideration of the important similarities and common ground it shares with medical sociology, its sister discipline. They argue cogently for the data and models of the latter to be taken into account by anthropologists interested in the social and cultural dimensions of health and disease. Their basic anthropological tenets are first the "adaptive" nature of health-related beh...

WARING ’ S PROBLEM FOR POLYNOMIALS Stephen McAdam

SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION. Lagrange proved that any positive integer was the sum of four or fewer numbers of the form x with x a positive integer. Waring asked if given an n ≥ 2, there is an f = f(n) such that every positive integer is the sum of f or fewer numbers of the form x with x a positive integer. Hilbert showed the answer was yes, via a very difficult and sophisticated proof. Subsequentl...

Reasons for inpatients not to seek clarity at Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital, Pretoria

BACKGROUND Healthcare practitioners should provide patients with information regarding their clinical conditions. Patients should also feel free to seek clarity on information provided. However, not all patients seek this clarity. OBJECTIVES To explore the reasons inpatients gave for not seeking clarity on information that was received but not understood. METHODS This was a qualitative arm ...