Response from Dr. Thompson

Dr. John Thompson

Dr. Isaac Thompson and his celebrated eye water.

For many years we have been fascinated by the methods of medical advertising. During the past decade advertising of ophthalmic products and services has burgeoned. A number of factors, including the emergence of"buccarteer surgeons" 1 as well as changes in laws and customs related to advertising induced by the "consumer movement" have contributed to this. One ophthalmic preparation that has bee...

Letter from Tommy Thompson

In my years at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, we have made tremendous progress in our efforts to improve the health, safety, and well-being of the American people. The Department's recent Steps to a HealthierUS initiative aims to help Americans live longer, better, and healthier lives by reducing the burden of diabetes, overweight, obesity, asthma, heart disease and stroke, a...

Response to Dr .

TO THE EDITOR: We thank Dr. Kawada for his interest in our recent article (5) and for raising several important issues related to the analysis of actigraphy in alcoholics. First, as noted in his letter we did use the default setting of 40 for sleep/wake sensitivity. We did this to permit comparison with our other studies and with the general literature, which largely tends to use this setting (...

Dr. Parmanand Kulhara's Response

Close on the heels of the ^ IPS presidential address, exhorting one and all to integrate our speciality with other branches of medicine it is indeed a welcome study. In the course of our consultation liaison work, we too have noted significant burden in families, where a child has chronic medical/surgical illness. Highlighting this as a necessary focus of management plans and facilitating such ...