Thinking of“Pre-Treatment”

Critical Thinking and Treatment Strategies for Wounds

Many wound care centers (WCCs) provide a specialized level of care using various wound care therapies and are managed by qualified healthcare professionals (QHPs) from different specialty backgrounds such as family medicine, podiatry, and plastic surgery. However, these QHPs are sometimes challenged by reimbursement issues, limited therapy and dressing options, reduced access to multidisciplina...

Medical treatment of aortic stenosis: promising, or wishful thinking?

Valvular aortic stenosis (AS) is a prevalent condition and one of the most common indications for valve replacement surgery. Although AS can be congenital in etiology or a consequence of rheumatic fever, the most common form is “calcific” AS. Calcific AS is usually seen in patients over the age of 65 years, and as the population continues to grow older, the number of patients with AS is almost ...

In This Issue/Abstract Thinking: Treatment Response in Psychiatry

I t is common for medical categories to be heterogeneous. A classic example is leukemia: there are different kinds of leukemias, each with a different etiology and a different clinical course. Disruptive behavior disorders seem an analogous example from child and adolescent psychiatry. Previous work has suggested that disruptive behaviors are made up of distinguishable dimensions of feelings an...

Withholding treatment in white-coat hypertension: wishful thinking.

Dimensions for Thinking About Thinking

We start by making a distinction between mind and cognition, and by positing that cognition is an aspect of mind. We propose as a working hypothesis a Separability Hypothesis which posits that we can factor off an architecture for cognition from a more general architecture for mind, thus avoiding a number of philosophical objections that have been raised about the "Strong AI" hypothesis. We the...