Merit awards

Merit awards.

Merit Awards-A Proposed Scheme.

It is now some time since the Ministry of Health set aside the sum of £500,000 for distribution among a number of general practitioners in the form of merit awards. Since then there has been much controversy and even bitterness over the definition of the word " merit ". It would appear that the feeling amongst general practitioners is that there is no fair way of selecting a doctor in general p...

Tracking the merit of merit pay

Image awards

Why is the mirror neuron system so controversial? About a dozen papers have reported direct evidence for mirror neuron activity in monkeys and birds. Approximately 100 times as many papers refer to mirror neurons without directly recording their activity, often implying a link between mirror neurons and higher cognitive functions. While the existence of mirror neurons in animals is beyond doubt...

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