Proposition 11 - What Will It Do?

Virtual colonoscopy--what it can do vs what it will do.

VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY HAS BEEN UNDER DEVELOPment for more than a decade, but only recently has it been reported to have sufficiently high enough sensitivity (94%) and specificity (96%) for detecting large ( 1 cm) polyps to warrant serious consideration as an option for colon cancer screening. However, the study by Cotton and colleagues in this issue of THE JOURNAL reports a much lower sensitivity...

It Ain’t What You Do (But the Way That You Do It): Will Safety II Transform the Way We Do Patient Safety; Comment on “False Dawns and New Horizons in Patient Safety Research and Practice”

Mannion and Braithwaite outline a new paradigm for studying and improving patient safety – Safety II. In this response, I argue that Safety I should not be dismissed simply because the safety management strategies that are developed and enacted in the name of Safety I are not always true to the original philosophy of ‘systems thinking.’

What will Phil do next?

Gene therapy : what it is , what it is not and what it will be

Gene therapy is the therapeutic procedure based on the introduction of healthy genes using recombinant DNA techniques. the first successful clinical trial of this technique was published in 1990. Despite the occurrence of adverse effects in certain clinical trials, some of them serious, both laboratories and companies are continuously developing novel materials and establishing both safer and m...

The wild ways of conscious will: what we do, how we do it, and why it has meaning

It is becoming increasingly mainstream to claim that conscious will is an illusion. This assertion is based on a host of findings that indicate conscious will does not share an efficient-cause relationship with actions. As an alternative, the present paper will propose that conscious will is not about causing actions, but rather, about constraining action systems toward producing outcomes. In a...