What would I want if this were my father?

What would I want for my surgery?

If you were to have an operation tomorrow, would you want your surgical team members to feel comfortable speaking up, to defy hierarchy, to interact with each other just as well as they perform technical aspects of the procedure? Would you want to feel like part of the team? Your answers to these admittedly leading questions are based on the culture of the surgical team and the interdependence ...

What would be conserved if "the tape were played twice"?

We develop an abstract chemistry, implemented in a lambda-calculus-based modeling platform, and argue that the following features are generic to this particular abstraction of chemistry; hence, they would be expected to reappear if "the tape were run twice": (i) hypercycles of self-reproducing objects arise; (ii) if self-replication is inhibited, self-maintaining organizations arise; and (iii) ...

What would you do if it were your kid?

Te contaria mi vida: I would tell you my life, if only you would ask.

Universal screening for domestic violence is recommended in many health care settings. This qualitative study was undertaken to explore the thoughts and feelings of Mexican American women regarding being asked questions about domestic violence by a health care provider. We wanted to further explore what characteristics about a nurse, or other health care provider, would give a woman confianza, ...

"What would you do if this were your child?": practitioners' responses during enacted conversations in the United States.

OBJECTIVE To explore how practitioners in the United States respond to the question "What would you do if this were your child?" during realistic enactments with professional actors. DESIGN Descriptive study of realistic pediatric critical care enactments. SETTING Pediatric critical care. SUBJECTS Interprofessional practitioners who enrolled in the Program to Enhance Relational and Commun...