Love Will Shine All through. Song

Ethiopian Love Song

In 1972, as a “defrocked” debutante, I worked at a mission hospital in Haiti. It was a summer like no other: full of life, death, and love in unexpected guises. In short, the trip was transformative, drawing me to new worlds like a moth to a flame. Before long, I decided to study tropical medicine. A decade later—as an infectious diseases trainee—my Chief took me aside. “Can you speak with an a...

Shine-through: temporal aspects

If a vernier stimulus precedes a grating for a very short time, the vernier either remains invisible, but may bequeath some of its properties to the grating (feature inheritance), or might shine through keeping its features - depending on the number of grating elements [Herzog, M. H. & Koch, C., 2001. Seeing properties of an invisible element: feature inheritance and shine-through. Proceedings ...

When will we learn to love complaints?

I have just made a complaint to an electricity company. We recently moved house, changed our supplier, and needed to pay off a small final sum to the company. Because of a glitch in their online payment system, it proved impossible to do this. After receiving a threat to send bailiffs round, I finally managed to speak to someone in the debts department, and paid the bill. I also suggested they ...

All you need is love?

When will the sun shine on Cyprus's National Health Service?

www.thelancet.com Vol 377 January 1, 2011 29 ineff ectiveness of the existing control mechanisms of health insurance funds who incur the costs. We strongly believe that the above problems could be addressed by ensuring adequate political will and social consensus. The integration of all primary-care providers, the establish ment of the multidisciplinary primary-care team, and the enactment of t...