Who Is Going to Read all This?

Who Is This Man?

Is this all?

We all attend professional meetings, conferences, assemblies, conference, and/or congresses, and pay money and often travel long distances to do so. We are not forced to go; we willingly attend. We find the necessary resources and leave our jobs to attend these gatherings of our peers and super-peers. We travel, register, attend some of the sessions (we can't get to all of them), possibly prese...

Is this woman going through menopause?

Relevance to family physicians Informed consumers are a good thing, but one of the side eff ects of being informed is their increased desire for testing. Patients have, I would say, an incredible faith in diagnostic testing, especially tests that involve high technology. Test results are often viewed by the public as black and white. Those of us who have dabbled in the science of diagnosis have...

Information Access Is Fine, But Who Is Going To Pay?

Modern telecommunication networks promise new perspective in information access at any time, from any place. On the other hand recent spectrum auctions made it clear, that the transmission capacity (at least for wireless access!) becomes really an economic issue. In this talk we advocate the thesis, that both flat rate and usage based charging of the end-users are structurally wrong, and discus...

"OMG, how long is this going to take?".

As the article in this issue by Latta and colleagues argues, the decision to treat very old elders for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) should ideally be made following a comprehensive functional assessment (CFA). However, because of the time a CFA will take on a busy day, the physician usually dreads the visit at which one is to be performed—despite the fact that a better clinical decisio...