UNACKNOWLEDGED INSANITY.

Insanity

Cheating in medical school: the unacknowledged ailment.

The reported prevalence of cheating among US medical students ranges from 0% to 58%. Cheating behaviors include copying from others, using unauthorized notes, sharing information about observed structured clinical encounters, and dishonesty about performing physical examinations on patients. Correlates of cheating in medical school include prior cheating behavior, burnout, and inadequate unders...

The unacknowledged risk of Himalayan avalanches triggering

A “universal” model for avalanche triggering, as well as for collapse of suspended seracs, is presented based on Quantized Fracture Mechanics, considering fracture, friction, adhesion and cohesion. It unifies and extends the classical previous approaches reported in the literature, including the role of the slope curvature. A new size-effect, that on mountain height rather than the classical on...

The Unacknowledged Transformation of Critical Care Medicine

The history of critical care is a narrative of increasing understanding of what care benefits our patients, delivered in a context that was stable, well understood, and substantially under local control. Now, our understanding of what care patients require is threatened by a variety of disruption in how that care is delivered. New restrictions on duty hours, the expansion of the critical care w...

Maslow ’ s Unacknowledged Contributions to Developmental Psychology

Few readily identify Maslow as a developmental psychologist. On the other hand, Maslow’s call for holistic/systemic, phenomenological, and dynamic/ relational developmental perspectives in psychology (all being alternatives to the limitations of the dominant natural science paradigm) anticipated what emerged both as and in the subdiscipline of developmental psychology. In this article, we propo...