From zero to HeRO: Saving the lives of patients one HeRO at a time

From Hero to Zero

This article discusses the identity processes involved in the transition to retirement for emergency service workers, which includes police officers, fire fighters, and emergency medical personnel. The author conducted a study using the Enhanced Critical Incident Technique (ECIT) to determine what helped, hindered and might have helped emergency service workers in making decisions regarding ret...

From Zero to Hero: How Zero-Rating Became a Debate about Human Rights

11β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases and the brain: From zero to hero, a decade of progress

Glucocorticoids have profound effects on brain development and adult CNS function. Excess or insufficient glucocorticoids cause myriad abnormalities from development to ageing. The actions of glucocorticoids within cells are determined not only by blood steroid levels and target cell receptor density, but also by intracellular metabolism by 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases (11β-HSD). 11β-HSD1 ...

Hero worship

This month, as the surest route to public embarassment, I decided to write about scientific heroes. Today’s world is full of talk of mentoring. Graduate students are told to find supervisors who will intellectually nourish them, emotionally support them, and teach them networking and grantspersonship. As I tap away, I can almost hear Uncle Syd muttering that the world is going to the dogs. In h...

My hero

[email protected] For the past 28 years I have talked about him, usually when people asked about the patients I treated as a hospital doctor or when asked about heroes. He was an inauspicious man, wrinkled by the years and with lungs which bore witness to decades of smoking. Late one night and after a long weekend on-call, I received a message from admissions telling me of his chest infect...