Our Inheritance, Our Future: Their Rights?

Metagenetics: spending our inheritance on the future

Amir Aharoni, Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. The size of the microbial world is beyond our imagination. In last year’s crystal ball article, Tom Curtis compared the size of the microbial world to the size of the universe pointing out that the number of microorganisms in the world is billion...

Our adolescents--our future.

Creating the future: beyond our inheritance of the past.

In some organizations, people seek the presidency as the culmination of a career, as feather in their professional cap, or perhaps because they think they are the absolute best person to hold the position. Still others may seek the presidential role because they want to ‘‘be the association president’’ or relish the opportunity to make a presidential address. Fortunately, the American Associati...

The 2022 GP: our profession, our patients, our future.

For the last decade or two general practice, indeed medicine in general, has been manufacturing ‘tools’ as if a 21st century industrial revolution was under way. Am I alone in my distaste and negative reactions, feeling that in most cases the word ‘tool’ is now used in a most ignorant and inappropriate way? Most patients know exactly what tools are, and use them to good effect in the real world...

Honoring Our Past, Building Our Future.