Sick LADy

Sick kids look sick.

Emergency physicians commonly evaluate children with fever and worry about how to best detect “occult” or “early” presentations of serious bacterial infections such as meningitis or sepsis. Laboratory testing is at times used to supplement clinical examination and physician judgment; however, the merits of such screening have long been debated and substantial practice variation remains. In this...

Sick individuals and sick populations.

Aetiology confronts two distinct issues: the determinants of individual cases, and the determinants of incidence rate. If exposure to a necessary agent is homogeneous within a population, then case/control and cohort methods will fail to detect it: they will only identify markers of susceptibility. The corresponding strategies in control are the 'high-risk' approach, which seeks to protect susc...

The Lady Almoner

j'HOUSANDS of patients pass through the doors of a great hospital every year, and not all are ln-patients. Many receive advice and treatment ^hich can be carried out at home, and in every hospital the out-patient department is very important. Long hours are devoted by skilled physicians and surgeons to the treatment of out-patients, but having given their help, what is impossible to the medical...

The Hon. Lady Darwin

One Old Lady

Paul Bailey's first novel, 'At the Jerusalem', led to wide acclaim from the critics of a new writer of major importance. Dr. Ralph Emery, a psychiatrist, at Brookwood Hospital, Woking, who specialises in the problems of the elderly, reviews this story of This is not an entertaining book. It is not meant to be. Any pleasure in reading it is entirely derived from its literary merit and masterly u...