Ministerial madness avoided

Madness

here are clouds in the painting, of course. Almost any one of us would have included those clouds, thick with electricity and rainwater. And there is the wheat field, smudged out like an empty palm, orange beneath the storm-stricken sun. Surely, many of us would have insisted on the wheat as well. Through the middle of the wheat, a rutted road slices to the horizon and disappears beneath the cl...

Moon-madness *

Mother Nature is an exceedingly exacting old lady. She guards her treasures well and does not yield them on casual inquiry. To be sure, she has spread the stuff and substance of the Universe before everyone so that it might be described and classified. For generations men have eagerly approached this monumental job until at last there is available a fairly satisfactory account of the structure ...

Pharmacy madness.

The patient had only minor shortness of breath upon climbing two flights of stairs, despite a left ventricular ejection fraction of 30%. He was stable and doing well on digoxin, diuretics, beta blockers and an angiotensinconverting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor. However, a troublesome dry cough was becoming intolerable to the patient. After discussion with him, we elected to consider a trial of an ang...

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Metasynthetic Madness

From its origins in the 1990s, the qualitative health research metasynthesis project represented a methodological maneuver to capitalize on a growing investment in qualitatively derived study reports to create an interactive dialogue among them that would surface expanded insights about complex human phenomena. However, newer forms positioning themselves as qualitative metasynthesis but represe...