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An interview with Lucian Leape.

653 Lucian L. Leape, M.D., is Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health, and Consultant, The RAND Corporation. A pediatric surgeon by training, Dr. Leape has devoted the last 15 years to the challenge of improving patient safety in the United States health care system. Dr. Leape has contributed a substantive body of research on medical error and has been a tireless adv...

SELF - FULFILLING CREDIT MARKET FREEZES Lucian

Thrombin receptor activation work wins 2011 Lucian Award.

The Lucian Award Created in 1965 by a $2 million bequest of Olga Leibovici in honor of her two brothers, Louis and Artur Lucian, the Lucian Award is a $60,000 CDN prize that was first awarded in 1978. The terms of the bequest state that McGill University or its representative will use part of the income from the original $2 million endowment to create the Louis and Artur Lucian Award. “Very spe...

81 Vohra

81 The discovery and popularization of roentgenography at the beginning of the century enabled the visualization of heel spurs.1 Wachter and Sonnenschein2 in 1915 correlated four cases of painful heels with calcaneal spurs; after all four patients returned for surgery following conservative care, the authors concluded that surgical intervention was the best treatment. Heel spur syndrome or plan...

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