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This Is Your Litigation Section – Thoughts from the Chair

In the last issue of the Litigation Section newsletter I explored the concept of becoming better. Better lawyer, better practice, better person. This year as I take over as Chair of the Litigation Section, my goal is to achieve betterment. I envision making this Section rise to a level of becoming something better and more valuable to you, its members. It is hard to measure improvement if you d...

Posterior Vertebral Injury; Is This a Burst Fracture or a Flexion-Distraction Injury?

In thoracolumbar spinal fractures with posterior column injury for applying proper management, it is important to distinguish a flexion-distraction injury (FDI) from a three column burst fracture (BF) as in clinical examination, both may have a similar significant tenderness on direct spinal palpation. Careful attention to the comprehensive clinical examination and detailed imaging features are...

A critical study on commentaries of : He said: This is a right way with Me

On the forty first verse of the chapter Hijr no acceptable commentary has given so far. The verse can be regarded as one opposed to the diversity of commentators` views. The origin of the diversity of the two groups, Shiite and Sunni, has been known to be the meaning of This and with Me. The paper has critically given four ways of reading the verse firstly and then studied commentator`s four vi...

This is dedicated to our former chairman Dr. Mahmoud Rohani

Is this reaction caused by this drug?

The case report on cotrimoxazole-induced pancreatitis by Versleijen et al. deals with the assessment of the probability that cotrimoxazole induced the acute pancreatitis: a causality assessment. In this editorial, we comment on this assessment from a clinical, pharmacological and epidemiological perspective. Moreover, the consequences of the results of the assessment are discussed.