It Never Happened: Kinguri's Exodus and its Consequences

Mistaken memories: remembering events that never happened.

Our memories can be accurate, but they are not always accurate. Eyewitness testimony, for example, is notoriously unreliable. Insights into both veridical and false remembering have come from recent investigations of memory distortion. Behavioral measures have been used to demonstrate false memory phenomena in the laboratory, and neuroimaging measures have been used to provide clues about the r...

“it never rains it pours!”

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It shouldn't have happened, but it did.

It finally happened to me.

It finally happened to me: I was sued for malpractice by the family of a patient who had died suddenly. My inner turmoil in the aftermath of this traumatic event affected me deeply. While I was an experienced family doctor dedicated to patient-centered medicine, the event challenged my customary approach to my patients. I share three vignettes from my practice that describe my inner dialogue bo...

“It never rains it pours!”

The most effective therapy for end stage liver disease is transplantation. Immunosuppression and surgical techniques have improved the long term survival of patients following liver transplantation; this had led to an increase in demand for organs (1). The liver has remarkable regenerative properties and because of this it is possible to transplant part of a liver into an individual. This can b...