IGNORANCE OR MALPRACTICE?

Medical Malpractice: A Preventable or Inevitable Issue

Stigma: ignorance, prejudice or discrimination?

The term stigma refers to problems of knowledge (ignorance), attitudes (prejudice) and behaviour (discrimination). Most research in this area has been based on attitude surveys, media representations of mental illness and violence, has only focused upon schizophrenia, has excluded direct participation by service users, and has included few intervention studies. However, there is evidence that i...

Artificial Intelligence: Arrogance or Ignorance?

W ojciech Cellary's remarks on decision making and intelligence in Com-puter's September 2003 issue (" The Profession's Role in the Global Information Society , " pp. 124, 122-123) brought to mind Bob Colwell's " Engineering Decisions " column (Computer, Aug. 2003, pp. 9-11) and my disappointment with Adrian Hopgood's article, " Artificial Intelligence: Hype or Real-ity? " (Computer, May 2003, ...

Neglected headache: ignorance, arrogance or insouciance?

Headache is one of the most frequent medical complaints. Almost everybody has experienced it, 50–80% of adults from all countries report it as a recurring nuisance, 10–20% are at least sometimes disabled by it, and up to 3% bear it – with varying levels of difficulty – on more days than not (1). The consequences, not only pain but also disability, financial losses and impaired quality of life, ...

Off-label prescribing: best practice or malpractice?

‘‘Labels’’ for medicines are also known as the ‘‘package inserts’’ that list the details of the approval granted by regulatory authorities such as the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) for the sale of medicines by the pharmaceutical industry. ‘‘Off-label’’ means utilizing an approved medicine in a manner not contained in the approved ‘‘label.’’ Although it is illegal for employees of the ...