Morbidity: A personal response

Response of TLD and RPL personal dosimeters in a national inter-comparison test program

Background: Different kinds and models of personal dosimeters are used in individual monitoring by workers.  Performance testing as part of approval procedures is carried out to demonstrate that the essential performance specifications are routinely maintained. There are four service providers in Iran which use different luminescence techniques (i. e. TLD and RPL) with various kinds of dos...

Immune response is a personal matter

Changes in gene expression could be used to predict whether individuals will respond successfully to the influenza vaccine.

Maternal mortality and morbidity in the developing world: personal reflections and a profession's commitment.

The realities of maternal mortality and morbidity in the developing world and possible roles for intervention by American physicians are discussed. T he first person for whom I ever performed a "C-section" died. It was 1975 in the rain forest of Nigeria. "So it is in Africa. So it will always be." Those words, spoken in anger on that day by an African colleague have haunted me ever since. She h...

Department of medical education; A personal history

This is a brief overview of the history of formal introduction of the art andscience of education into the sphere of medical education in Shiraz. Before this introduction medical education was, and in the majority of other institutions world-wide still is, a simple transfer of knowledge from teacher to student. The students accepted their passive role because this was how they had been taught a...

A Personal Response to those Who Bash Teacher Education