"When Doctors Differ"

Doctors differ over the German crown prince.

We thank the department of medical photography, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth; Dr H Bunn for help with translation; and Ms H Frame for typing the manuscript. 1 Wessinghage D. Themistocles Gluck: 100 Jahre kunstlicher Gelenkersatz. ZOrthop 1991;129:383-8. 2 Muster D. Themistocles Gluck, Berlin 1890: a pioneer of multidisciplinary applied research into bionaterials for endoprostheses. Buletin ofth...

Defining death: when physicians and families differ.

W hile media coverage of the Terri Schiavo case in Florida has recently refocused public attention on end of life decision making, another end of life tragedy in Utah has raised equally challenging—and possibly more fundamental—questions about the roles of physicians and families in matters of death. The patient at the centre of this case was Jesse Koochin, a six year old boy suffering from ‘‘i...

The redistribution of income when needs differ

When the Upper Parameters Differ by Integers

In many problems arising in physical sciences and statistics, hypergeometric functions, in logarithmic cases, are applicable, which is known from the monograph of Mathai and Haubold [4] and Mathai [3], etc. A detailed account of such applications is available from the two monographs by Mathai and Saxena [5], [6]. Expansions of the Gauss’s hypergeometric functions in logarithmic cases are given ...

On Monopoly Insurance Pricing when Agents Differ in Risk Aversion

The paper analyzes a monopolistic insurer’s pricing strategies when potential customers differ in risk aversion and their type cannot be observed by the insurer. Our model builds on Schlesinger (1983), who derived optimal nonlinear pricing strategies for competitive and monopolistic insurance markets. While Schlesinger assumed existence, we are concerned with conditions under which optimal stra...