Family Medicine Quartet

[Family medicine].

Quartet Compatibility and the Quartet Graph

A collection P of phylogenetic trees is compatible if there exists a single phylogenetic tree that displays each of the trees in P. Despite its computational difficulty, determining the compatibility of P is a fundamental task in evolutionary biology. Characterizations in terms of chordal graphs have been previously given for this problem as well as for the closely-related problems of (i) deter...

Teaching evidence based medicine in family medicine.

UNLABELLED The concept of evidence based medicine (EBM) as the integration of clinical expertise, patient values and the best evidence was introduced by David Sackett in the 1980s. Scientific literature in medicine is often marked by expansion, acummulation and quick expiration. Reading all important articles to keep in touch with relevant information is impossible. Finding the best evidence th...

AIDS Quartet

Not long ago, I e-mailed Donald McNeil, Jr. I wanted to know how many HIV/AIDS articles the New York Times reporter had written over the years. “Fiddling with the Times’ website and internal library . . . produces 201 to 495,” McNeil replied. “I think it’s safe to say I’ve written 400 stories about AIDS.” At the end of this piece I’ll share McNeil’s favorite, but for now I’ll state the obvious....

Interdisciplinary family medicine.