Medical treatment at Glastonbury Festival.

The Glastonbury Festival 1993: pattern of attendances and admissions to an NHS Trust.

Browne 300: festival at Norwich.

(11:21); hence from the very nature of creation Browne may conclude: "All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the City of Heaven." Browne could not know in 1658 that he would live for another 24 years. As though The Garden of Cyrus is actually his final work he joins it, like a snake swallowing i...

Enhancing communication at at a large conference festival

The purpose of this document is to outline some practical options for use of computer-conferencing techniques to facilitate a variety of interactions between participants at a large conference /festival /exhibition. The document has been prepared in response to the encouragement of the organizers of several large conference /festival events who are looking at the possibility of using such techn...

Medical care for a mass gathering: the Suwa Onbashira Festival.

INTRODUCTION The Suwa Onbashira Festival is held every six years and draws approximately one million spectators from across Japan. Men ride the Onbashira pillars (logs) down steep slopes. At each festival, several people are crushed under the heavy log. During the 2004 festival, for the first time, a medical care system that coordinated a medical team, an emergency medical service, related agen...

Medical treatment at the end of life.

These terms of reference focussed on relevant issues concerning euthanasia for both Colleges at the time the working group was established. However, our discussions became increasingly influenced by public and professional concerns about, on the one hand, the unnecessary continuation of treatment and, on the other, a too ready dismissal of possible life saving measures in vulnerable patients. W...