RNA: master or servant?

Papers and Originals Medical Science : Master or Servant ?

If any testimony were needed to the unique position of William Harvey in the development of modern medicine, it would be sufficient to note that after more than three centuries new researches into his life and work continue to be made and have yielded in the last few years a quite astonishing harvest. Notable among them are the recent volume by Keynes (1966), so rich in learning yet so delightf...

Technology: Servant or Master of the Online Teacher?

TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES ON THE INTERNETand the World Wide Web have tended to drive online pedagogy. It is time to reverse this relationship and make the needs of teaching and learning take priority. The authors propose three different formats for utilizing the Web in online and classroom instruction. These formats were developed in a program for undergraduate legal studies dealing with three lev...

The Function of a Medical Director in Healthcare Institutions: A Master or a Servant

The function of a medical director is presented along with features of efficiency and deficiencies from the perspective of healthcare system improvement. A MEDLINE/Pubmed research was performed using the terms "medical director" and "director", and 50 relevant articles were selected. Institutional healthcare quality is closely related to the medical director efficiency and deficiency, and a cri...

Will markets be master or servant to health at the World Bank?

In the 18 years since a six part series by Abbasi in The BMJ argued that the World Bank merits greater attention from the health community, the institution has received little scrutiny from global health scholars. This is despite its substantial and growing role in the health sector. A recently published series of articles by Sridhar and colleagues does much to fill this gap. The authors paint ...

Out of the Household: Master-Servant Relations and Employer Liability Law