The ultimate experiment

"The ultimate diagnosis".

IN a short article in the British Medical Journal last year, a general practitioner recorded that one day the local postman said to him: "Doctor, most of those who pass away round here are patients of yours." It would certainly be true to say that many of those who have passed away in the Belmont area of Belfast during the past forty years were patients of mine, and this is a matter of mingled ...

The ultimate social network.

The ultimate anticoagulants?

The ultimate curse.

This paper tells the story of a doctor in a vegetative state. The approach towards him is quite different from that towards a common patient. The other physicians cannot deal with this situation with the necessary open mind.

The ultimate emergency shower.