Ten Commandments for Writing a Marvelous Medical Paper

The Ten Commandments.

Ten Simple Rules for Writing a Reply Paper

Efforts to subject one’s own pet hypotheses to severe tests, to attempt to falsify them, are always warranted. The likelihood that one will impose unrealistically high standards is quite low. The same cannot be said for the standards that scientists set for the work of their opponents. . .. As unseemly as factionalism in science may be, it does serve a positive function. It enlists baser human ...

Ten commandments for implementing clinical information systems.

Ten commandments of enzymology, amended.

Reflections on advances and retreats in biochemistry have, over the years, generated several maxims. The late Efraim Racker’s ‘don’t waste clean thinking on dirty enzymes’ has been one of the most durable. On the occasion of a lecture in Jerusalem a decade ago, I framed a list of the ten ‘best’ maxims as ‘commandments’, which were later published as a ‘Guest Commentary’ in the Journal of Bacter...

Ten Commandments for patient-centred treatment

1. Thou shalt have no aim except to help patients, according to the goals they wish to achieve When deciding on a treatment, the first diagnosis you need to reach is about the nature of the illness. The second diagnosis you need concerns what the individual would like to achieve.1 Both are of equal importance and this is as true in simple one-off encounters as in complex lifelong illness. But t...