Review: The Poor Had No Lawyers

The team had no options.

[ 102 ] As noted by the authors, DNR is not yet recognised by law in India. There is, thus, no legal validity to such a directive. Under the circumstances the physician must tread carefully between legal imperatives and the principles of humane behaviour. Where there is reasonable ground to make a poor prognosis regarding recovery and survival, the physician is justified in obeying instructions...

Protothought Had No Logical Names

Peer-review: let's imitate the lawyers!

As noted by Della Sala and Grafman in their Editorial, the traditional peerreview process has many drawbacks. In this comment, we would like to emphasize one particular problem of peer review, namely how reviewers handle findings that are incompatible with their own viewpoints. Speculating as to why it took several years before his ideas on the architecture of human memory were accepted by cogn...

No longer the poor relations.

In the 1938 edition of the British Encyclopaedia of Medical Practice, a page within the chapter on leukemia is devoted to a description of the clinical and hematologic differences between plasma cell leukemia and multiple myelomatosis. The observations made remain valid to this day. Unfortunately, to a significant degree, so does the prophetic final sentence: “The prognosis is hopeless, whether...

British hunting ban had no effect on fox numbers