Zero-dimensional noise: The best mask you never saw

What Guidelines? Never Saw Them!

Richard Hockey Because of the nature of the analysis used in this study [1], no conclusion is possible. There are plenty of examples in the literature demonstrating the “ecological fallacy”. Studies such as this have very little utility other than to generate hypotheses. I tend to think that this association is a marker for greater recognition and treatment for depression. However, it’s a brave...

The most memorable patient I never saw.

Soon after midnight, after a busy day on the inpatient psych unit, I slipped into a deep sleep. Then the phone rang in the residents’ on-call room. “Dr. Lazarus?” the voice on the other end inquired. “Yes,” I replied, half asleep. “This is Dr. Hendricks (not her real name) in the ER. Are you the on-call psych resident tonight?” “I am,” I answered drowsily. Every physician knows that nightly awa...

The Best Thing I Saw at ASCO

The 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting was a practice-changing event sure to excite even the most dispassionate among us. In my own field of gastrointestinal oncology, there were seismic alterations in the way many will now approach adjuvant therapy in colorectal and biliary tract cancers. And as we enter the brave newworld of histology agnosticism, even Kuhn would...

I went; I saw: I was never the same!

The greatest book you never read.

There are books that everybody has heard of but few have actually read. Some are out of date, others are timeless; some are utter nonsense, others are profound. Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (1899); Adam Smith’s An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776); Marx’s The Communist Manifesto (1848); Dante’s Divine Comedy (circa 1321); Cervantes’ Don Quixote (1605); D...