This is an excerpt from Hamilton Jordan's book No Such Thing as a Bad Day reprinted with permission.

Recently, the Council of the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists agreed to use the term 'patient' as the preferred collective noun when referring to people accessing mental health services in its official documentation. Choices regarding terminology have the power to influence those who use such terms and here, David Christmas and Angela Sweeney debate the issue of whether such a decision is appr...

The collective description of the octupole degrees of freedom has been a long standing problem in nuclear physics @1#. The phenomenological description of low-energy vibrational states @2,3# discussed them in terms of simple ‘‘surface modes’’ thus allowing for the description of the octupole degrees of freedom in terms of seven collective variables a3m @2,4#. In the 1980s, theoretical calculati...

Severe cardiac and neurologic toxicities of tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) overdose have been reported since the introduction of TCAs in 1950s. Despite the decreased numbers of TCA overdoses, the mortality and morbidity rates of TCA overdose have remained constantly high. Clinical manifestations of TCA overdose are characterized by unconsciousness and specific electrocardiography (ECG) abnormal...