It takes time: Building relationships and understanding through an intergenerational ballet programme

It takes the time that it takes.

It was five days before my first Christmas in Perth, Australia, and our family had begun to arrive the night before. As the rest of household slept, I quickly threw on a skirt and tank top and left to attend the memorial service for one of my study participants, a 57-year old Anglican minister who had died from motor neurone disease (MND). Though I feared I would be late, I could see people mil...

Why It Takes Two to Build Successful Buyer-seller Relationships

Minute ventilation: it takes time to get it right.

The search for ideal predictors of successful extubation or “liberation” from mechanical ventilation has been a subject of constant investigation for over half a century. Initial investigations were spurred by the need to determine adequate reversal of paralytic agents after general anesthesia, sufficient to allow sustained spontaneous ventilation and permit extubation.1,2 It is notable that th...

Minute Ventilation: It Takes Time to Get It Right

The search for ideal predictors of successful extubation or “liberation” from mechanical ventilation has been a subject of constant investigation for over half a century. Initial investigations were spurred by the need to determine adequate reversal of paralytic agents after general anesthesia, sufficient to allow sustained spontaneous ventilation and permit extubation.1,2 It is notable that th...

General thoracic surgery and science: it all takes time.

Maybe this is the era of “contraction.” In the United States, we have been warned by major league baseball that because of revenue losses, at least two major league teams are going to be removed from the league. Curiously enough, there is much discussion (and action) for contraction of the length of specialty residencies in the United States also, with a more streamlined training of thoracic su...