Phenomenologic Chippendale Chair: Stephen’s Nightmare

G. Gayle Stephens Festschrift.

Prescriber's Nightmare

The precriber's first problem is : On what basis to make the choice? On the basis of the established name of the comapny? On the basis of the retail price of the drug? In the recent past, the drug were required to be prescribed by their pharmacological name, with the prescribing doctor having the option to mention the company's name alongside. For many reasons, this practice did not catch on. O...

Untangling the Prometheus Nightmare

A number of bush and forest fire simulators have been developed in the last two decades based on the deterministic spread equations of Gwynfor Richards (Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng. 1990) and the marker method for computing discrete approximations to the Richards equations. Unfortunately, all such implementations are plagued by topological complications. For example, sampling issues on the evolving ...

Ebola: controlling the nightmare.

The unprecedented outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa is a true global public health emergency, requiring extraordinary measures and global cooperation. Throughout 2014 the world has observed a global health crisis unfold in a way that has never been seen before (Box 1). Multiple outbreaks of EVD have overwhelmed healthcare and humanitarian services in many areas, restricting t...

A surgeon's nightmare: Complications.

OBJECTIVE Our study aimed to determine the physically and psychologically most difficult complication resulting in chronic discomfort and occurring sensationally in the postoperative period of operations performed frequently in the daily surgical routine. MATERIAL AND METHODS We performed a survey among surgeons who participated in the 19(th) National Surgery Congress. The questions were rela...