Editor’s Note: On re-encountering long-time integrative rehabilitation specialist Eric Leskowitz, MD, last fall, I urged him to consider a JACM commentary. Dr. Leskowitz is a holistically oriented psychiatrist who leads the Integrative Medicine Task Force at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, was a member of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School for 20 years. Leskowit...

OBJECTIVES To collect the views of experts to inform the development of an education package for multidisciplinary adult specialist palliative care (SPC) teams caring for young people with life-limiting conditions. METHODS A modified online Delphi process collated expert opinion on format, delivery and content of an education package to up-skill adult SPC teams. Round 1 participants (n=44) an...

BACKGROUND Specialist palliative care nurses have considerable expertise in pain management and this expertise can contribute to tension in the boundary between specialist nurses and non-specialist doctors. OBJECTIVES This article reports on how specialist palliative care nurses contribute to team talk about pain and the rhetorical strategies they use to develop their reputation and credibili...

Current IRSG Chair, Mark Dunlop, will not be standing for re-election. After six eventful years in the hot seat, Mark has decided to hand the keys of the inner sanctum over to someone else. And, in case he feels that he might be persuaded to stay on, Mark will also be leaving the UK in the summer for a new research position in Denmark. Nominations for the post of Chair or any committee post, in...

OBJECTIVES To describe the characteristics of Western Australian (WA) people who received, and did not receive, specialist palliative care (SPC) during their last 12 months of life. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS People who died between 1 July 2000 and 31 December 2002 in WA, and whose cause of death was from cancer or selected non-cancer conditions. MAIN OUTC...

METHOD A survey of gerontological content in nursing and social work programs across Canada (English speaking) was conducted. The survey tool was the competencies list developed for interprofessional gerontological education by the National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly (NICE). Deans or designates of English-speaking nursing and social work programs across Canada were contacted by e-ma...

This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. This document is a product of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). The IRTF publishes the results of Internet-related research and development activities. These results might not be suitable for deployment. This RFC represents the consensus of the Delay-Tolerant Networking Research Group of the Internet Research Task...

This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. This document is a product of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). The IRTF publishes the results of Internet-related research and development activities. These results might not be suitable for deployment. This RFC represents the consensus of the Scalable Adaptive Multicast Research Group of the Internet Research Ta...

In creating interconnection networks for parallel computers an efficient design is crucial because of its impact on the performance. A high speed routing scheme that minimises contention and avoids the formation of hot-spots should be included. We have developed a new method to uniformly balance communication traffic over the interconnection network called Distributed Routing Balancing (DRB) ba...

The authors present a case study on the development of auditory hallucinations secondary to right temporal lobe damage. Surgical resection in the study patient was of the right superficial middle and inferior temporal gyri. Carbamazepine at a dosage of 800 mg daily was the most effective medication used. A multidisciplinary approach involving the neurosurgeon, psychiatrist, family, and rehabili...