Where there is no laboratory, a urine patch test helps diagnose meningitis

Where there is no overlap, there is a gap.

Where There Is No Paediatric Surgeon!

Case 1: A female baby weighing 3 kg referred from a small town near Afghanistan border, after providing initial surgical care for gastroschisis. In privately owned vehicle it takes more than 36 hours to reach our facility from the hospital, where patient was managed initially. The baby was delivered with no antenatal workup. Following birth the patient was immediately transferred to the militar...

Diagnosing depression: there is no blood test.

OBJECTIVE To explore and describe primary care physicians' experiences in providing care to depressed patients and to increase understanding of the possibilities and constraints around diagnosing and treating depression in primary care. DESIGN Qualitative study using personal interviews. SETTING A hospital region in eastern Canada. PARTICIPANTS A purposely diverse sample of 20 physicians ...

What do otters eat where there is no fish?

WHO: where there is no vision, the people perish.

Forces are already in motion that will change the future of health sciences librarianship. In addition to changes in academic health centers, changes in the publishing industry, the mode of delivering information by librarians, the use of computers to manipulate and make information available, the user's access to information, and communications technology are briefly described. The author prop...