What do we mean when we say ‘sport’?

What Do We Mean When We Say "Collaboration"?

What do we mean when we say an operation works?

At a conference the other day, while hotly debating the role of hip arthroscopic surgery in the management of osteoarthritis, a friend and colleague announced to the assembled throng, 'We know that hip arthroscopy doesn't work'. You would not have expected the Editor-in-Chief of this journal to remain silent at that moment and I certainly was not. However, what the statement did highlight, of c...

we say what we mean and we mean what we say

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Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for dermatologists: What shall we do when we don’t know what to do?

What shall we do when we have done everything we could for the diagnosis and treatment of a patient, but were not successful? What shall we do when there is no definite treatment for a patient? What shall we do when we have no diagnosis or treatment for a patient? Some useful suggestions are presented here to get rid of these situations.

NLP and Online Health Reports: What do we say and what do we mean?

Social media sites such as microblogs and discussion board forums have the potential to be rich source of information about human health. Going beyond simple keyword search and harnessing the data for insights that can benefit public health presents both opportunities and challenges to natural language processing (NLP). In this talk I survey the progress made using NLP methods, e.g. for adverse...