Let us not neglect or even put it aside

Let us not neglect the impact of organizational culture on increasing diversity within medical schools

In this issue, Young et al. present a six-point framework for pipeline and program development, intended to increase diversity in Canadian medical schools [1]. Using a framework of knowledge translation, the authors emphasize the key role of collecting and monitoring longitudinal diversity-related data in designing, implementing and evaluating diversity-related initiatives. Young et al. argue t...

Let us get on with it.

It was important to have a New Year’s sermon—something about resolutions, I thought, and to my chagrin, I discovered that the words resolution and resolve do not appear in the Bible, neither in the Old nor New Testament. Why is that? Aren’t resolutions like the New Year’s ones good? Isn’t it good to have goals? Yesterday, today and tomorrow There are two days in every week we should not worry a...

Health Policy and Diabetes Care: Is It Time to Put Politics Aside?

The burden of chronic diseases is enormous and growing, not only in the U.S. but also around the world. The control of chronic diseases requires effective approaches, including patient education, provider knowledge, and team care. Effective policies must also be enacted to address chronic diseases at a local, state, and federal level. This is especially true with regard to diabetes, which in th...

Severe perineal trauma is rising, but let us not overreact.

Severe perineal trauma (SPT) experienced during childbirth is a serious morbidity for women, impacting on short and long-term physical and psychological wellbeing (Signorello et al., 2001; Macarthur and Macarthur, 2004; Priddis et al., 2013; H. Priddis et al., 2014). SPT is defined as a third degree tear, which involves injury to the perineum involving the anal sphincter complex; or a fourth de...

Winter pressures. Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow.