Finding My Front Porch

Finding my place.

On the first day of my internship, at about 8:00 in the morning, I was paged to the CCU. There a patient who was assigned to my service was undergoing resuscitation after cardiac arrest. Running after my resident, we arrived at the bedside of an 89-year-old man with end-stage congestive heart failure. The bed was surrounded by cardiology fellows, nurses, residents, a ventilator, crash cart, and...

Dental ethics case 16. Pull out my four front teeth...

Finding my ground in public health research: lessons from my Grandmother’s kitchen

Research has a 'bad name' in Aboriginal communities. Too often, researchers have come, gathered information and taken it away from Aboriginal people, with no benefit for the communities taking part in the research. This history has implications for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal researchers planning research with Aboriginal communities. An in depth interview study will be conducted in one region...

Ethical tenets of perioperative care: "finding my surgical way home".

In the course of their daily practice, anesthesiologists are confronted with a number of conventional ethical issues connected to situations ranging from informed consent to endof-life decision making [1]. The specialty of anesthesiology has recently evolved to include not only critical care and pain medicine but also perioperative medicine. The full spectrum of perioperative expertise is manif...

Finding Pareto-front Membership Functions in Fuzzy Data Mining

Transactions with quantitative values are commonly seen in real-world applications. Fuzzy mining algorithms have thus been developed recently to induce linguistic knowledge from quantitative databases. In fuzzy data mining, the membership functions have a critical influence on the final mining results. How to effectively decide the membership functions in fuzzy data mining thus becomes very imp...