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Physics. Is quantum mechanics tried, true, wildly successful, and wrong?

Antony Valentini has never been happy with quantum mechanics. Sure, it’s the most powerful and accurate scientific theory ever devised. Yes, its bizarre predictions about the behavior of atoms and all other particles have been confirmed many times over with multi-decimalplace exactitude. True, technologies derived from quantum mechanics may account for 30% of the gross national product of the U...

Tried and true: a survey of successfully promoted academic hospitalists.

BACKGROUND Academic hospital medicine is a new and rapidly growing field. Hospitalist faculty members often fill roles not typically held by other academic faculty, maintain heavy clinical workloads, and participate in nontraditional activities. Because of these differences, there is concern about how academic hospitalists may fare in the promotions process. OBJECTIVE To determine factors cri...

A Tried-and-True Method for Encouraging Innovation

Nitrous oxide in neuroanesthesia: tried and true or toxin?

NITROUS oxide is a funny gas. It got off to a less than auspicious start when Horace Wells was humiliated by boos and jeers when he administered it for surgery the first time at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) on January 18, 1845, and his patient, having the mask removed too soon, cried out with pain. It is implicated in a litany of well-known problems even today: nausea ...

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