Should we try to manage non-financial interests?

Careers. At least we should try.

LOOKING BACK over the years it is fairly obvious that there has been little or no career guidance in medicine. Apart from the odd chat with a senior often not much senior to the young graduate himself nothing was readily available to the newly qualified doctor about future prospects in the great variety of medical fields prospects, that is, of training needs facilities or vacancies. Yet little ...

How should we manage incidentalomas?

The patient-centered medical home model advocates that diagnostic testing be performed based on shared decision making between the patient and physician.1 This goal can be challenging when findings are uncertain or incidental to the original reason for ordering the test. For this reason, it would be useful for physicians to have guidelines to help address the ethical, practical, and legal impli...

Which symbol grounding problem should we try to solve?

Floridi and Taddeo propose a condition of “zero semantic commitment” for solutions to the grounding problem, and a solution to it. I argue briefly that their condition cannot be fulfilled, not even by their own solution. After a look at Luc Steel’s very different competing suggestion, I suggest that we need to re-think what the problem is and what role the ‘goals’ in a system play in formulatin...

How should we manage oral leukoplakia?

The aim of this article is to review the management of oral leukoplakia. The topics of interest are clinical diagnosis, methods of management and their outcome, factors associated with malignant transformation, prognosis, and clinical follow-up. Global prevalence is estimated to range from 0.5 to 3.4%. The point prevalence is estimated to be 2.6% (95% CI 1.72-2.74) with a reported rate of malig...

How should we diagnose and manage photosensitivity?