PhD survival guide

The Dad's Survival Guide

Like a hirsute Lord Reith; his mission: to inform and educate, Ian Banks returns to a bookshop near you. From TV to VD; you name it, he's covered it. The prolific Dr Banks latest offering weighs in at 192 pages, and is presented in the disarming and humorous style that is his moniker. Settling into an armchair, your reviewer elected to approach the project from the perspective of someone with n...

A Pathologist’s Survival Guide

Consultant survival guide.

Taking up a new consultant post can be both exciting and daunting. Once the elation of completing years of training and successfully securing a valued position has subsided, the reality of the task ahead becomes apparent. A new consultant needs to develop a number of skills to develop as a clinical leader and understand the processes within the National Health Service (NHS) that enable service ...

Placental pathology, a survival guide.

Placental pathology continues to be an underutilized, undertaught, and inadequately handled surgical subspecialty. The requests for placental pathology are soaring, due partly to demands from obstetricians and to the litigious environment in which they practice, and to improved obstetrical care leading to pregnancies in medically challenging situations. Evaluation of the placenta requires a goo...

A Survival Guide to Fission

The fission of a person involves what common sense describes as a single person surviving as two distinct people. Thus, say most metaphysicians, this paradox shows us that common sense is inconsistent with the transitivity of identity. Lewis’s theory of overlapping persons, buttressed with tensed identity, gives us one way to reconcile the common sense claims. Lewis’s account, however, implausi...