We can always care

Periocular keratoacanthoma: can we always rely on the clinical diagnosis?

AIM To present a series of patients with a clinical diagnosis of periocular keratoacanthoma and assess the incidence of histologically proven invasive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). METHODS This retrospective case series included all patients with periocular tumours seen in the authors' unit between 1996 and 2004, and who were initially diagnosed with keratoacanthoma based on the clinical pre...

We Have Always Been . . . Cyborgs

philosophy of mathematics suited well the ‘‘general emphasisin later nineteenth-century mathematics on revisiting foundationalquestions’’ (p. 61). Pure geometry as it emerged from Frege, Paschand Hilbert, provided a diagram-free, purely sentential notion ofproof, which has lasted unto our own day.In the second, and greater, part of the book, Greaves traces outthe interre...

Can we afford open-ended ICU care? Yes we can, but ...

e question whether we can aff ord open-ended intensive care unit (ICU) care should be answered with ‘yes we can, but ...’ [1]. Th e discussion is polarized. Th e US system will crash because everybody is right when it comes to openended care, and in Europe endless care is prohibited or rationed. With polarization, we lose sight of the middle path, where truth and solutions usually are found. Th...

Can We Apply the Control Material from Standard Clinical Chemistry Analyzer for Usage in the Point of Care Testing Analyzer?

Palliative care always.

Palliative cancer care is the integration into oncologic care of therapies that address the issues that cause physical and psychosocial suffering for the patient and family. Effective provision of palliative cancer care requires an interdisciplinary team that can provide care in all settings (home, inpatient, and outpatient). There is clear evidence for improved outcomes in multiple domains-sym...