No man is an island…

No man is an island.

No man is an island…

As much of my work is collaborative, I am very aware of the virtues and difficulties of collaboration in the modern scientific world. Most collaborations are short term; perhaps one scientist has an assay, the other a reagent, and an obvious quick gain will result from joining forces. But greater (though often less concrete) benefits come from longer term collaborations. Your collaborator may b...

No doctor is an island

No doctor is an island " expand the knowledge base of PH and the complexities of diagnosis and management of this group of patients " ; and lobbying power, " to create a force that will have levels of influence on many facets of PH management in Australia and New Zealand. " [3] (See the PHSANZ abstracts published in this issue of Pulmonary Circulation). they were joined by still more people in ...

No man is an island: multiple pathologies in patients with malaria.

When John Donne stated, " No man is an island, " he could have been meditating on microbes and their interactions. Some agents provoke expression of a second infectious disease by disrupting immune mechanisms; of these, human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS is the most well-known, predisposing to tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobac-terium avium), cryptococcosis, cryptospo-ri...

'No man is an island'. Testing the specific role of social isolation in formal thought disorder.

Recent work has focused on the role of the environment in psychosis with emerging evidence that specific psychotic experiences are associated with specific types of adversity. One risk factor that has been often associated with psychosis is social isolation, with studies identifying isolation as an important feature of prodromal psychosis and others reporting that social networks of psychotic p...