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Medical History and Medical Care

that the nursing sisters of a French asylum recognized that a patient's behaviour seemed to be that of an epileptic, but she does notfall. 'Les religieuses me disent: "elle est mechante comme une epileptique, mais elle ne tombe pas." ' The revision has taken into account such concepts as psychomotor epilepsy and temporal lobe epilepsy, 'which were as yet rare or non-existent at the writing of t...

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Defining Medical Futility and Improving Medical Care

It probably should not be surprising, in this time of soaring medical costs and proliferating technology, that an intense debate has arisen over the concept of medical futility. Should doctors be doing all the things they are doing? In particular, should they be attempting treatments that have little likelihood of achieving the goals of medicine? What are the goals of medicine? Can we agree whe...

Supporting Temporal Information in Medical Care Planning

The problems associated with planning and managing patient treatment through complex care settings are significant. It has long been realised that support tools are invaluable in ensuring quality and consistency of care in a domain characterised by complex information spread over widely differing contexts. This paper focuses on the temporal nature of medical support tools and describes structur...

Medical Care

From the viewpoint of the medical founders, although not necessarily of their non-professional colleagues, one of the main objectives of the new hospitals was to facilitate the study of diseases of childhood. Continental experience indicated that specialized institutions provided unrivalled opportunity to advance knowledge of the clinical course and pathology of illness. An honest appraisal wou...