The lost art of service design

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.

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...

Comment on: The lost art of argumentation

Leontowicz identifies the topic of argumentation as a critical competency for medical students and practicing physicians, and suggests that the topic be included as part of medical education programs. I would first like to applaud the author for identifying this topic, and I would like to contribute to the conversation with a few observations concerning argumentation as it relates to medical pr...

investigating the feasibility of a proposed model for geometric design of deployable arch structures

deployable scissor type structures are composed of the so-called scissor-like elements (sles), which are connected to each other at an intermediate point through a pivotal connection and allow them to be folded into a compact bundle for storage or transport. several sles are connected to each other in order to form units with regular polygonal plan views. the sides and radii of the polygons are...