do we need to screen our patients for ebv igg antibody before kidney transplantation?

do we need an eye-shield in our cath-labs?

Ramadan fasting: Do we need more evidence?

Over a billion of Muslims fast worldwide during Ramadan each year. Through this religious custom, fasting contributes to their health as well as their spiritual growth. However, available evidence regarding the health-benefits of Ramadan fasting is scarce and highly contentious. Although Islam exempts patients from fasting, many fast conceivably, and their clinical condition is prone to deterio...

Staff Burnout… Do we need any intervention?

Dear Editor, As you know physical and mental wellness of physicians and nurses, as the main role in the treatment of patients, in conditions such as burnout, compassion fatigue, depression, and poor work-life balance, is one of the top priorities in the U.S.A. National Academy of Medicine  (1-4). Although healthcare team members are generally known as a caregiver to others;  their h...

Assessment: do we need to broaden our methodological horizons?

Although medical education is a broad field of research and practice, it has come to be dominated by issues of assessment. Reasons for this emphasis range from the focus on accountability for educational outcomes to the established relationship between assessment and student motivation. Researchers in the domain, especially in North America, have largely focused on methodologies taken from psyc...

AER: do we need to "improve" our alignments?

Currently most statistical machine translation systems make use of alignments as a first step in the process of training the actual translation models. Several researchers have investigated how to improve the alignment quality, with the (intuitive) assumption that better alignments increase the translation quality. In this paper we will investigate this assumption and show that this is not alwa...

We Do It for Our Patients.

I was told by a nurse attending a CCRN/PCCN review course that he had no intention of sitting for the certification examination. His response when I asked why was, “I will not be paid any more, my hospital does not pay for the test, and frankly I just don’t see any reason to do it.” When asked why he had come to the review course, he answered “Oh, I like to learn, it was free, and I’m being pai...