Letters from Home

One young man and total war (from Normandy to concentration camp, a doctor's letters home)

dissertation, undertakes an analysis of the sixty or so consulting psychiatrists (beratende Psychiater) who advised military-medical authorities about a range of psychiatric and neurological illnesses during the Second World War. These doctors were, for the most part, university psychiatry professors whom the Wehrmacht enlisted at the beginning of the war, most were born in the decades surround...

Points from Letters

(a) Undergraduate medical education, leading up to the M.D. degree. After qualification, all doctors have to serve a period of interneship for at least one year, as well as pass a state licensing examination, before they can practise as general practitioners. (b) Graduate education, covering usually a period of at least three years, with a view to specialization. During this period, graduates g...

From Letters to Pixels

Specifying regions of interest to search 3D anatomical space can be di cult. Ontology-based queries are often imprecise and return extra (unwanted) data. Drawing regions of interest in graphical 3D representations of a model organism in principle allows for high precision, but user interfaces can be awkward to use and time consuming. In this poster we promote the use of spatial descriptions as ...

Points from Letters

Referral letters from general practitioners.

If continuity of care is to be preserved, then the process by which a patient is referred to hospital is important. We have analysed a series of letters of referral from general practitioners with special reference to the diagnoses made and the inclusion of a relevant history.