Obituary: Neil William Please, 1919-2005

Obituary for William Lucas Root , 1919 - 2007 Fred Beutler and

To fully appreciate the impact of Bill Root’s early work on statistical communication theory, we need to understand the state of the discipline in the early 1950s. There was no organized curriculum in the area, and the then limited research was carried out by electrical engineers, physicists and mathematicians who were self-taught. Consequently, the theoretical literature consisted of assertion...

Obituary: William J Sibbald, MD, FRCP(C)

William Sibbald was born June 28, 1946, and died September 14, 2006, at his home in Toronto, Ontario, surrounded by his family after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 60 years old. Up until two days before his death, he remained the Physician-in-Chief of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Critical Care and a lifelong dynamic force for the advance...

Suicides among seafarers in UK merchant shipping, 1919-2005.

BACKGROUND Little has been reported on suicides among seafarers and how they have changed over time. AIMS To establish the causes, rates and trends in suicides at work among seafarers in UK merchant shipping from 1919 to 2005 and to compare suicide rates with the general UK population and with seafarers employed in non-UK shipping. METHODS Examination of seafarers' death inquiry files, deat...

A Continual Remembrance. Letters from Sir William Osler to his Friend Ned Milburn 1865–1919

The Gold-Headed Cane, by WILLIAM MACMICHAEL, facsimile of 1827 ed., with introduction by Thomas Hunt, London, Royal College of Physicians, 1968, pp. 26 + 179, illus., £4. William Macmichael (1783-1839), M.D. Oxon., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., was educated at Bridgnorth Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford. After graduating in Arts he studied medicine at Edinburgh and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Londo...

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