My illness, my record

Memoirs of my nervous illness

RICHARD L. GOLDEN and CHARLES G. ROLAND (eds.), Sir William Osler, an annotated bibliography with illustrations, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1988, 4to, pp. xv, 214, $100.00. Sir William Osler's personality and writings exert a continuing fascination. Minnie Wright Blogg's bibliography of 1919 was quickly superseded by Maude E. Abbott's Classified and annotated bibliography of 1926 (second...

painting and essay competition: my city, my neighborhood

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O-23: "Caring My Family Integrity"

My mother caused my illness: the story of a survivor of Münchausen by proxy syndrome.

OBJECTIVE Münchausen by proxy syndrome (MBPS) is a form of child abuse in which a parent fabricates or produces illness in a child. Although the medical consequences of MBPS have been well described, there is no detailed published account of what it was like to grow up in a family where the mother systematically induced serious illness. This article describes one victim's childhood experiences....

MHMD: My Health, My Data

MHMD is an EU-funded project poised to create the first open biomedical information network centred on the connection between organisations and the individual, aiming at encouraging hospitals to start making anonymised data available for open research, while prompting citizens to become the ultimate owners and controllers of their health data.