In this article we explain (1) the standard of care that health care providersmustmeet and (2) how these principles apply to complementary and alternative medicine practitioners. The scenario describes a 14-year-old boy who is experiencing back pain and whose chiropractor performed spinal manipulation but did not recognize or take steps to rule out serious underlying disease—in this case, testi...

BACKGROUND CAM practitioners are a valuable but underutilizes resource in Australian health care. Despite increasing public support for complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) little is known about the CAM workforce. Apart from the registered professions of chiropractic, osteopathy and Chinese medicine, accurate information about the number of CAM practitioners in the workforce has been di...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Dutch public health services are charged with collective preventive care for the population--care that should, by law, be based on epidemiological data. General practices potentially offer important data for this purpose, particularly since more and more use a computer. This study aimed to assess whether it is possible to obtain useful epidemiological data from this source. DE...

for Research on Learning), John McDermott (Yale University), and Pat Hayes (University of Illinois). Participants at the workshop included AI researchers, cognitive psychologists, social scientists, philosophers, and representatives of many other disciplines interested in expertise. In addition to keynote presentations by Harry Collins (University of Bath, United Kingdom), William Clancey, Neil...

OBJECTIVE To identify and quantify the reasons general practitioners and family physicians consider retraining and their reasons for not pursuing further training. DESIGN Population-based mailed survey. SETTING British Columbia. PARTICIPANTS Family physicians and general practitioners identified by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Practis...

Subtyping is an important concept and used in many programming languages. One approach to give semantics to languages with subtypes is by translation to target languages without subtyping: Subtypings A ≤ B are interpreted via conversion functions A → B. This paper shows how to extend the method to languages with computational effects, using Moggi’s computational metalanguage.

1 regarding the safety of sedation practice done by untrained sedation practitioners. Non-anaesthesiologists are involved in sedation worldwide, and I agree that sedation of patients for minor procedures 'is here to stay'. But I am concerned that a dark picture is painted of conscious sedation, which is very safe when done by trained practitioners. In order to help solve the problem, we need to...