Role of poverty must be emphasised

Improving Educational Performance: Why Tackling Child Poverty Must be Part of the Solution

[Commitment Must Be Shared].

The Colombian Association of Psychiatry continues to work in different areas (professional and scientific issues) with the aim of improving the profession for its members. As you will have noted, from the scientific standpoint, the journal, as a means of communicating the knowledge base generated by mental health professionals, both national and international, strives for continued improvement ...

Tracheostomy must be individualized!

Tracheostomy is one of the most frequent procedures carried out in critically ill patients with major advantages compared to translaryngeal endotracheal intubation such as reduced laryngeal anatomical alterations, reduced inspiratory load, better patient's tolerance and nursing. Thus, tracheostomy can enhance patient's care in patients who need prolonged mechanical ventilation and/or control of...

Ghost Surgeries Must Be Eradicated

A medical institution possesses both public and private inter­ ests. However, recently, the public side of things has been em­ phasized because medical practice can involve invading the hu­ man body for treatment. As a result of this emphasis on public interests, medical law stipulates symbolic regulations on a hos­ pital's duty to prevent infections and the duty of medical per­ sonnel to provi...

Curves That Must Be Retraced

We exhibit a polynomial time computable plane curve Γ that has finite length, does not intersect itself, and is smooth except at one endpoint, but has the following property. For every computable parametrization f of Γ and every positive integer n, there is some positive-length subcurve of Γ that f retraces at least n times. In contrast, every computable curve of finite length that does not int...