Renaissance or requiem?

The new contract: renaissance or requiem for general practice?

Death of the clinician: requiem or reveille?

MICHAEL J. LEPORE, Death of the clinician: requiem or reveille?, Springfield, Ill., Charles C Thomas, 1982, 8vo, pp. xviii, 359, $27.50. This book is an autobiographical polemic which is, at times, disguised as history, about the organization and financing of medical education in the contemporary United States. Lepore is, however, an engaging storyteller. Many of his anecdotes will amuse reader...

Estrogen-related receptor β (ERRβ) – renaissance receptor or receptor renaissance?

Estrogen-related receptors (ERRs) are founding members of the orphan nuclear receptor (ONR) subgroup of the nuclear receptor superfamily. Twenty-seven years of study have yet to identify cognate ligands for the ERRs, though they have firmly placed ERRα and ERRγ at the intersection of cellular metabolism and oncogenesis. The pace of discovery for novel functions of ERRβ, however, has until recen...

Requiem

"In never considering neuromuscular disease to be untreatable, Yves Rideau has found ways to ameliorate every aspect of these conditions. His work has resulted in immeasurably enhancing the quality of life of his patients". This dedication included into the Guide to Evaluation in Management of Neuromuscular Diseases, 1999, made by a coworker who studied in Poitiers from 1981 to 1983, summarizes...

Challenging a Potential Juror for Cause: Resuscitation or Requiem?

The use of juries in civil cases is severely circumscribed in Australia, and only a small percentage of criminal cases are decided by juries.* 1 This percentage, while small, is significant. Only the most serious criminal cases are tried before a jury,2 and it is such cases that tend to generate the greatest amount of public interest. Consequently, “[ljegal ideology and popular commonsense imag...