Minimalism in art, medical science and neurosurgery

Medical errors in neurosurgery

BACKGROUND Medical errors cause nearly 100,000 deaths per year and cost billions of dollars annually. In order to rationally develop and institute programs to mitigate errors, the relative frequency and costs of different errors must be documented. This analysis will permit the judicious allocation of scarce healthcare resources to address the most costly errors as they are identified. METHOD...

Advancing the art and science of medical plans.

96 At SOCPAC, MAJ Tim Christison, Chief of Medical Plans and myself, have experimented with new techniques for both plans and operational battle management using old concepts and new technologies that have proven to be very valuable. Both techniques employ visual information which most neuroscientists and cognitive researchers agree are the most powerful means to organize and make sense of info...

Plastination--an unrevealed art in the medical science.

Life and Medical Ethics in Pediatric Neurosurgery

Ethical issues in the field of pediatric neurosurgery, including prenatal diagnosis, palliative care for children with an intractable serious disease, and medical neglect, are discussed. An important role of medicine is to offer every possible treatment to a patient. However, it also is the responsibility of medicine to be conscious of its limitations, and to help parents love and respect a chi...

Art and science: geodesy in materials science.

A 3-dimensional model based on a molecular structural recipe having some unique and unexpected shape characteristics is demonstrated. The project was originally initiated to satisfy the aesthetic creative impulse to build a 3-dimensional model or sculpture. Further scientific investigation explained some important nanoscale structural observations that had been seen many years beforehand and mi...