In Work We find Our Dignity

Our academy, our mission, our work!

This publication finds me at the half-way point of my tenure as president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. It is therefore timely to review our academy’s goals and progress, reflecting upon and inspecting our work together as a committed and talented group of management team members and volunteer leaders. To share highlights of the year-to-date, I have created a “virtual interview,” po...

Can We Add Auricular Composite Graft to Our Rhinoplasty Armamentarium?

BACKGROUND The ala of the nose, with its particular texture and characteristics, poses both aesthetically and functionally intriguing challenges and is rather problematic regarding choices for reconstructive methods. Both flaps and grafts have been used to restore natural structure of nasal ala. The present study summarizes a ten-year experience of reconstructive surgery using small composite...

Work-efficient parallel union-find

The incremental graph connectivity (IGC) problem is tomaintain a data structure that can quickly answer whether two given vertices in a graph are connected, while allowing more edges to be added to the graph. IGC is a fundamental problem and can be solved efficiently in the sequential setting using a solution to the classical union-find problem. However, sequential solutions are not sufficient ...

Our Call: Find Ways to Increase Access.

We and Our Children

successful attempts to put information into what is termed "popular" language. The medical writers are beginning to see the value of a literary style, and now and then a writer of real genius arises in that learned profession. Such a man has recently been making his presence felt by contributing articles of very great value, on subjects of medicine, hygiene, and the like, to popular magazines. ...