OBJECTIVE To examine how general practitioners experience patients' complaints. SETTING General practices in Lambeth, Southwark, and Lewisham health authority. PARTICIPANTS Representative sample of 30 general practitioners who had had complaints made against them under either the old or new complaints system. DESIGN Qualitative study with detailed interviews. RESULTS Participants descri...

Supervising Section Editor: Sean O. Henderson, MD Submission history: Submitted April 01, 2012; Accepted April 16, 2012 Full text available through open access at http://escholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2012.4.12292 [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):494] Shankar LeVine, MD Caitlin Bailey, MD Arun Nagdev, MD Alameda County Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oakla...

So we did what we usually do, approach understanding clumsily, not knowing if such a complaint could ever be resolved, or how, or to whose satisfaction, or the child’s wishes, with so little help to offer, recording an uncertain prognosis, so awkward to translate, entering the clinical elements anyway, using terms that burnish our bronzed mode of medical thinking, closing our eyes, trying to co...

The most frequent complaint of operators in modern computer-based control rooms is that there just are not enough video display units (VDUs). In this paper we examine the basis for this concern and try to understand the technical and historical reasons for this complaint, and its implications for the design of complex human-machine systems, including the number of VDUs in the control room. The ...

Primary Sjögren syndrome (pSS) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease characterized by xerophthalmia, xerostomia, and potential peripheral or central neurological involvement. In pSS, the prevalence of cognitive disorders is generally sparse across literature and the impact of pain on cognitive profile is unclear. The aim of this study was to determine the relation between pain, cognitive com...

The present report is one of the results from the pre-study “Leksaker blir lärsaker”, completed in March 2003. It is complemented by the report “Lekfullt lärande: Spel och simuleringar i lärandesyfte (Playful learning: Games and simulations with a learning objective)” (Harvard, 2003), including interviews with people having practical experience from play-related design of learning environments....

The adult and the larva of Dirrhagofarsus ernae n. sp. are described from the Eastern United States. The genus Dirrhagofarsus is diagnosed and a key to all known species of the genus is provided.