Impersonating another patient in order to procure an abortion

Impersonating another patient in order to procure an abortion.

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(3) Clinical scenario Susan, an 18-year-old, presents to you in a community setting requesting a termination of pregnancy (TOP). You see from her notes that she had a TOP 6 months earlier and, in the course of the history taking, you raise this with her. She confesses that in fact she didn’t have this TOP but her sister, Nicola, who was 15 years ol...

Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis in an Iranian Patient

Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis is a rare disease of the nervous system which causes one to lose his/her feeling of pain. The disease is subtype four of hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy (HSAN IV) that results from NTRK1 gene defect. Direct sequencing was performed to screen NTRK1 for mutations. The result revealed a homozygous deletion of adenine on intron 14 that ma...

Leukocyturia, another clue to inflammation in acute coronary syndrome

Introduction: Cronary artery disease is the main cause of mortality in developed countries. Classic risk factors have not been able to explain epidemiologic variants in this disease, hence other risk factors including systemic infections are under survey. This study was designed to evaluate the possible role of local and systemic infections in producing acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Methods: ...

Abortion due to Brucella abortus in Sheep in Iran

Impersonating Myself on the Internet

This paper describes the implementation of a computer program that responds to chat messages sent by users of an internet chat client. The program uses a statistical model of previous chat messages sent and received by the author to determine possible meanings of incoming messages and select an appropriate response. Two heuristics are also used to allow the program to respond in cases where the...