Dr Michael J Powers QC Clerksroom & ADR Chambers, Taunton A meeting of the Medico-Legal Society was held at The Medical Society of London, 11 Chandos Street, London W1, on Thursday, 13 January 2005. The President, Dr Neville Davis, MBE, was in the Chair. The President: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I think we are in for another treat this evening. Standing on my left, Michael Powers is ve...

Splenic cysts are rare clinical entities, reportedly occurring in only 0.5%–2.0% of the population. The first splenic cyst was reported in 1829 by Andral, and with the increasing use of diagnostic imaging, splenic cysts are now more commonly being diagnosed incidentally. We report the case of a splenic cyst in an 18-year-old man who initially presented to a remote nursing station in Labrador wi...

The ants and termites have renounced the 'Hobbesian war,' and they are the better for it. Their wonderful nests, their buildings, superior in size relative to man; their paved roads and overground vaulted galleries; their spacious halls and granaries; their cornfields, harvesting and 'malting' grain; their rational method of nursing eggs and larvae, and of building special nests for rearing aph...

Today, two main approaches are prominent in the assessment of care quality. The first is the determination of care standards, and the other approach for quality-guarantee is the method of monitoring the patient satisfaction. The aim of this study is to determine the satisfaction levels of patients, who stayed in surgery clinics in different hospitals, with nursing care. The sample of the study ...

1 Background The problem of cubes that are sums of consecutive cubes goes back to Euler ([10] art. 249) who noted the remarkable relation 33 + 43 + 53 = 63. Similar problems were considered by several mathematicians during the nineteenth and early twentieth century as surveyed in Dickson’sHistory of the Theory of Numbers ([7] p. 582–588). These questions are still of interest today. For example...