SAT-256 The Ever Confusing Cushing’s Work Up: Is It Real? Is It Pseudo Cushing’s’? Or Could It Be Factitious

If it is to be, it is up to me.

Medical Errors Disclosure: Is It Good or Bad?

Background: In the treatment and health process, there are a lot of dangers to patients, and the increased number of medical errors is one of the most important circumstances of this process. Objective: The present research purposed to decrease medical errors through disclosure of them in hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. M...

It is NOT the gastrocnemius, soleus, or Achilles …. What could it Be? A plantaris muscle injury.

The plantaris muscle originates from the lateral supracondylar line of the femur in the posterior of the knee and courses distally in an inferomedial direction near the medial head of the gastrocnemius and along themedial border of the Achilles tendon. The tendon of the plantaris muscle either inserts with the Achilles tendon or can have its own independent insertion on the calcaneus (4). The m...

Is It Fake or Real?

In this paper, we describe a new methodology to separate photographs and computer generated images . We introduce the Progressive Randomization (PR) technique that captures the statistical properties of each one of these classes. Using only statistical descriptors of the least significant bit (LSB) occurrences, our method already performs as well or better than some comparable existing techniqu...

Automatic Clinical Text De-Identification: Is It Worth It, and Could It Work for Me?

and Objective The increased use and adoption of Electronic Health Records, and parallel growth in patient data available for secondary use by clinicians, researchers, and operational purposes, all cause patient confidentiality protection to become an increasingly more important requirement and expectation. The laws protecting patient confidentiality typically require the informed consent of the...