" Does OO really match the way we think ? " by Les Hatton

Automation in Anatomic Pathology

What can we envision automating in the anatomic pathology laboratory? The big picture of animation in anatomic pathology is difficult to understand if we compare it to the way that we think about automation in clinical pathology using the typical concepts of pre-analytic, analytic and post-analytic processing. While anatomic pathology can be thought of as having analytic, post analytic as well ...

Characterising the diagnosis of software failure " by Les Hatton

Mistaking the Map for the Territory: What Society Does With Medicine; Comment on “Medicalisation and Overdiagnosis: What Society Does to Medicine”

Van Dijk et al describe how society’s influence on medicine drives both medicalisation and overdiagnosis, and allege that a major political and ethical concern regarding our increasingly interpreting the world through a biomedical lens is that it serves to individualise and depoliticize social problems. I argue that for medicalisation to serve this purpose, it would have to exclude the possibil...

Paralympic Judo: Is there Evidence for Match Rigging among Athletes with Disabilities?

Objectives. This paper studies the existence or non-existence of match-fixing (or rigging) among judo wrestlers (judoka) with disabilities during the consecutive Paralympic Games from 1988 until 2016. Methods. In our analysis, we use the institutional framework that makes it easy understand and model the incentives of the wrestlers using the readily available data. Our data set consists of off...

Does Management Really Matter? And If so, to Who?; Comment on “Management Matters: A Leverage Point for Health Systems Strengthening in Global Health”

The editorial is commendable and I agree with many of the points raised. Management is an important aspect of health system strengthening which is often overlooked. In order to build the capacity of management, we need to consider other factors such as, the environment within which managers work, their numbers, support systems and distribution. Effective leadership is an issue which cannot be o...