UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT.—DEGRADING OFFER OF A QUALIFIED SURGEON.

Should we offer the surgeon a break?

To the Editor: Le Manach et al. present a study demonstrating the experimental applicability of changes in pulse pressure variation (dPPV) for the prediction of changes in cardiac output (dCO). The study is accompanied by a panegyric editorial answering the rhetorical question whether we need to monitor CO during surgery with a resounding NO! We now have dPPV!1,2 There is, however, a number of ...

A Sociopragmatic Study of the Offer Speech Act in Persian

The present study aimed to identify strategies used to realize the speech act of offerin Persian. To do so, 195 male and female native Persian speakers were selected fromdiverse age ranges, educational backgrounds, and social classes, and were assigned a36-item Discourse Completion Task (DCT) to elicit the speech act of offer. Thirtyfield workers also recorded naturally occurring interactions c...

A Theory of Qualified Types

• The ability to include local constraints as part of the type of an object. This enables the definition and use of polymorphic overloaded values within a program. ∗An earlier version of this paper was presented at the European Symposium on Programming, Rennes, France, February 1992 and appears in the conference proceedings published in Springer Verlag LNCS Volume 582. †Address from September 1...

Toward a philosophy of dealing with unprofessional conduct.

New house-officers' views on unprofessional behaviour.

AIM To determine the views of new house officers (HO) on professionalism and unprofessional behaviour following dismissal in January 2007 of a HO who was caught video-taping nurses in the shower. METHODS An anonymous self-administered questionnaire was administered during new house officers' orientation. Using a Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree), HO were asked to rank...