Should LSP Dictionaries. also Include Professional Jargon and Slang?

Updating LSP dictionaries with collocational information

Despite the big amount of general language dictionaries in electronic form, those coming from specialised areas are still “under construction”. There are two main reasons for this: firstly, the need for these dictionaries was/is less essential than the need for general language dictionaries, since these were/are aiming mainly to specialists, and secondly many specialised areas are changing over...

Should comprehensive diagnosis include idiographic understanding?

The World Psychiatric Association has emphasised the importance of idiographic understanding as a distinct component of comprehensive assessment but in introductions to the idea it is often assimilated to the notion of narrative judgement. This paper aims to distinguish between supposed idiographic and narrative judgement. Taking the former to mean a kind of individualised judgement, I argue th...

Should treatment of sepsis include statins?

During the past decade, HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) have been shown to improve survival in patients with cardiovascular disease. Initially, the beneficial effects of statins were attributed simply to lipid reduction1; however, more recent data suggest that “pleiotropic” properties such as improvement of endothelial dysfunction, increased nitric oxide bioavailability, and antioxidativ...

Should Priority Setting Also Be Concerned About Profound Socio-Economic Transformations? A Response to Recent Commentary

Professional Organizations: Who Should Join?

113 Medical expenditures are rising faster than any other sector of the economy (Feldstein, 2001). More dollars are being spent on health care than ever before, yet health care providers are realizing lower profits. The explosion of medical spending in the 1960s led to constraint in the 1970s. As a result, clinicians, who are facing cutbacks in demand for and reimbursement of their services, ar...