Dr. RD Lele's autobiography: “Pursuit of excellence”

Autobiography of Dr Karl Ernst von Baer

their holdings of multiple copies. A handful of later lists are included, the most substantial from the seventeenth century being that of John Nidd, dated 1659, with a high proportion of medical books. Where the books were bequeathed to College libraries, as Nidd's were to Trinity and Andrew Perne's to Peterhouse, those still to be found on the College shelves have been identified. The owners f...

The pursuit of excellence.

AFEW YEARS AGO, I SAW IN MY CLINIC A PATIENT who had recently had undergone a Fontan procedure for tricuspid atresia. His mother did all the talking. She was really pleased with the result of the operation. “For the first time he can keep up with me when we go shopping”, she explained. Gratifying, I suppose, but afterwards I had a deep sense of failure about the patient. He was 53-yearsold, and...

In Pursuit of Spreadsheet Excellence

The first fully-documented study into the quantitative impact of errors in operational spreadsheets identified an interesting anomaly. One of the five participating organisations involved in the study contributed a set of five spreadsheets of such quality that they set the organisation apart in a statistical sense. This virtuoso performance gave rise to a simple sampling test – The Clean Sheet ...

In pursuit of scientific excellence: sex matters.

THE YEAR 2012 MARKS the 125th anniversary of the American Physiological Society (APS). Throughout its history, APS has been a leader in innovation and excellence in scientific technology, discovery, education, and publication. Consistent with this history, APS is leading the scientific publication community by requiring the reporting of the sex of experimental animals and material derived from ...

The Pursuit of Excellence Through Education