Robert Leonard Bree, MD

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18 Letter from Robert Aumann to Leonard Savage and Letter fromLeonard Savage to Robert Aumann

Suppose your utility for an umbrella is 1, and for no umbrella is 0; suppose further that your subjective probability for rain is 1/2. Then acts A and B have utilities 1/2 and 1 respectively. On the other hand, I don’t think it would be unreasonable for you to be indi¤erent between the two acts, since an umbrella is useless in fine weather. Obviously, the answer is that your utility for umbrell...

Robert I. Simon, MD: Of psychiatry, law, and books.

Dr. Robert I. Simon, this year’s President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL), is an exceptional psychiatrist, teacher, and colleague. His contributions have earned him the most prestigious awards in the field of forensic psychiatry. In perhaps the ultimate acknowledgment of his erudition, the Supreme Court cited one of his books, Clinical Psychiatry and the Law (1987), in...

Robert Gary Mennel, MD: a conversation with the editor.

Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2006;19:374–385 B ob Mennel (Figure 1) was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on July 27, 1944, and grew up there. After attending parochial schools he went to St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia, graduating in 1966, and then to the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, graduating in 1970. His internship and residency in internal medicine were at the University of Roch...

In Memoriam: Robert J. Joynt, MD, PhD (1925-2012).

O n his way to neurology grand rounds, Robert (Bob) Joynt, MD, PhD, died suddenly on April 13, 2012, at the age of 86 years in Rochester, New York. He is survived by his wife, Margaret; their 6 children Robert, Patricia, Mary, Anne, Thomas, and Kathleen and their spouses; and 9 grandchildren. Joynt was chief editor of the Archives of Neurology (1982-1997); a trifecta president of the American A...