More Hippocrates, Less Hypocrisy

More Hippocrates, less hypocrisy: "early offers" as a means of implementing the Institute of Medicine's recommendations on malpractice law.

Reforming abortion services in the UK: less hypocrisy, more acknowledgment of complexity.

To cite: Goldbeck-Wood S. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2017;43:3–4. BACKGROUND A moment when the world0s most powerful country has just elected one of its most anti-abortion presidents might seem an odd time for UK abortion care providers to be seeking the liberalisation of Britain0s abortion law. But 50 years on from the passing of the 1967 Abortion Act, abortion care in the UK is heading to...

Less is more… (more or less…).

In April 1981 Xerox introduced the Star 8010 workstation, the first commercial system with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and the first to use the “desktop” metaphor to organize a user’s interactions with the computer. Despite the perception of huge progress, from the perspective of design and usage models, there has been precious little progress in the intervening years. In the tradition of ...

Less Is More, More the Merrier, or More From Less?

P hysicians deal with uncertainty all the time and chest pain in the emergency department (ED) is a typical example. Traditionally, coronary artery disease (CAD), pulmonary embolism (PE), and aortic dissection can present as chest pain, and the consequences of a missed diagnosis can be devastating, with the potential for rapid deterioration, and serious risk of morbidity and mortality. Moreover...

More for Less - Getting More Clients by Broadcasting Less Data

Broadcasting is scalable in terms of served users but not in terms of served data volume. Additionally, waiting time deadlines may be difficult to uphold due to the data clutter, forcing the clients to flee the system. This work proposes a way of selecting subsets of the original data that ensure near-optimal service ratio. The proposed technique relies on the novel data compatibility distance,...