When Humour Turns into Humiliation: Mindful Actions in Medical Education

When Gaze Turns into Grasp

Previous research has provided evidence for a neural system underlying the observation of another person's hand actions. Is the neural system involved in this capacity also important in inferring another person's motor intentions toward an object from their eye gaze? In real-life situations, humans use eye movements to catch and direct the attention of others, often without any accompanying han...

When defense turns into attack

The APOBEC3 cytidine deaminases play an important role in innate immunity but have also emerged as mediators of somatic mutations in human cancer. We recently reported a high incidence of APOBEC-mediated driver mutations in human papillomavirus-associated cancer, suggesting a key role for these enzymes in the development of such tumors.

Hybrid medical leadership turns competitors into collaborators.

When strength turns into disease: acne fulminans in a bodybuilder*

A 31-year-old male visited our hospital seeking dermato-logical care. He had been bodybuilding for a long time and had recently initiated a strict preparation program for a contest. To this end, he took intramuscular testosterone injections on three occasions , developing severe acneiform lesions. The course was gradual but progressive, leading to limitations in his daily activities, with arthr...

Shame and humiliation in the medical encounter.

Patients are at high risk for experiencing shame and humiliation in any medical encounter. This is because they commonly perceive diseases as defects, inadequacies, or shortcomings; while the visit to the hospital and the doctor's office requires physical and psychological exposure. Patients respond to the suffering of shame and humiliation by avoiding the physician, withholding information, co...