The 7/8 Crown: A Lost Art

Open laminoforaminotomy: A lost art?

BACKGROUND Open cervical laminoforaminotomy (CLF) provides safe and effective decompression/excision of lateral/foraminal disc herniations/spurs contributing to nerve root compression. CLF's advantages over anterior cervical discectomy/fusion (ACDF) include the lack of risk to anterior structures (esophagus, trachea, carotid, and recurrent laryngeal nerve) and the avoidance of a fusion. Further...

Lost art of argumentation

In training to be physicians, medical students occasionally try their hand at structured debates over popular topics in medicine. These debating exercises highlight an important issue for physicians: we may be known for our smarts, but we are not always known for our stellar communication skills. Much of our job is made easier by the implicit trust patients irrevocably afford us, but what happe...

Prognostication: medicine's lost art.

Retinal drawing: a lost art of medicine.

The Lost Art of Hospital Ventilation

exposure ; they opened into wide-windowed corridors which, in turn, communicated with open stairways serving as ventilating flues. In the wards themselves the space allowance per bed was fully 1,800 cubic feet, or, approximately, 50 per cent, above the prevailing standard. All of the conditions favoured abundant natural ventilation. Twenty years have passed, and the costly mechanical ventilatin...