Fear Fear is a prerequisite for the diagnosis of PTSD, no fear, no diagnosis. The word fear derives from the Old English to lie in wait or ambush. It describes an unpleasant, often strong, emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger. Synonyms include dread, which adds the idea of intense reluctance to face or meet a person or situation and suggests aversion as well as anxiety. Fright ...

fter a long day’s work on my internal medicine clerkship as a medical student, I waited at the sixth floor elevator at 11:00 pm. An unassuming elderly man whom I met earlier that night in the emergency room approached me. With a touch of timidity in his voice, he asked if I could spare a minute of my time. Piercing through the humility and kindness that I had come to realize were constantly pre...

The time has come! It is time that anaesthesiologists wake up to the pressing need of work satisfaction and positive balance in life. Through various initiatives by WFSA (Professional Wellbeing Committee), ASA (Committee on Occupational Health) and SBA/CLASA, anesthesia societies all over the world are trying to create awareness on the Burning Issue of wellness at work. ‘‘With present interest ...

In a paradigm facilitating smile misattribution, facial responses and ratings to contempt and joy were investigated in individuals with or without gelotophobia (fear of being laughed at). Participants from two independent samples (N1 = 83, N2 = 50) rated the intensity of eight emotions in 16 photos depicting joy, contempt, and different smiles. Facial responses were coded by the Facial Action C...

Evolution has remained a controversial topic for children in the United States since the 1925 Scopes Trial brought the issue to the national stage. Children’s science trade books in public library children’s collections were important sources of information about evolution. This analysis draws on the Main Street Public Library (MSPL) database of the collections of five small Midwest public libr...

BMJ VOLUME 325 28 SEPTEMBER 2002 bmj.com Staff at the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Drug Safety wanted the United States to consider following the United Kingdom’s policy of reducing the public’s ease of access to paracetamol to try to reduce the number of deaths from overdose, a concern in both these countries. But the office’s views never reached the FDA’s nonprescription drugs adv...

T he Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on the Operation of NHS Research Ethics Committees (AHAG) is a curious document. The remit of the review was focused on the workings and effectiveness of NHS research ethics committees (both the local committees (LRECs) and the multicentre committees (MRECs)). The Group was primarily set up in response to a series of complaints from medical researchers a...

The care of patients with chronic disease is one of the most urgent medical challenges in the United States. Chronic illness accounts for most of the demand, expense, and investments in scientific discovery. The well-documented shortcomings in medical quality and safety fall heavily on the shoulders of patients with these conditions (1). Meanwhile, the Medicare program moves steadily toward ins...

of the Manuscript Project: This monograph investigates some of the historical roots of the contemporary and complicated connections between Indian men, Indian women, and the state by examining multilayered links between gender and Indian/state relations from 1850-1925. In particular, the study explains the historical foundations for Indian women’s often-peripheral status in Indian/state relatio...

The health needs of young people have been receiving increased attention in recent years. In the UK this has arisen partly because of government initiatives, such as Health of the Nation, Health of the Young Nation, the Young People’s Health Network, and so on. However, on the international scene more health professionals are speaking out about this age group and about its special characteristi...