Emerging Burden of Frail Young and Elderly Persons in Oman : For whom the Bell Tolls ? = أعباء رعاية الشباب و كبار السن في عمان : لمن تقرع الأجراس ؟

For whom the bell tolls?

For whom the desert bell tolls: heat stroke or stroke

       Heat stroke is the most complicated and dangerous amongst heat injuries that can lead to irreversible injury and even death with itself or with creating predisposibility to different diseases. The following case report depicts a patient who presented primarily with impairment of consciousness after walking 45 km in the summer heat to cross the Syria-Turkey border and la...

Festschrift editorial--for whom the bell tolls.

A fter four and a half wonderful and exciting years at the helm of the Indigo Journal it is time to pass the baton to our new team of Editors – Drs. Abel Ickowicz and Russell Schachar. I am extremely confident that the new editors will help grow the Journal and launch it into the new stratosphere of high quality research and academic debate. They are supported by a dedicated team of professiona...

2015, big data in healthcare: for whom the bell tolls?

The health care sector generates bountiful data around the clock, which can paradoxically complicate our quest for information, knowledge, and ‘wisdom’ [1]. It may be prudent that medical end-users consider seriously a fundamental change that would allow us to gain full value from the ‘big data’ that the health care section is generating [2]. Proponents of the big data revolution suggest that t...

‘For whom the bell tolls’: Listening and its Implications

This response highlights the cultural specificity of the ‘work-concept’ and questions the tripartite scheme of listening proposed by John Butt. It offers an alternative set of listening categories, and makes reference to the issues of early-modern class structures and the role of music in religious devotions. The argument is supported by critiques of historical vignettes that include the story ...