OBJECTIVE To identify key characteristics of psychologically distressed general practitioners and whether these GPs volunteered for a "GP health" educational program. SETTING Eight Australian divisions of general practice responding to an invitation to participate in the research in 1999, representing 1356 GPs. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), together with de...

UNLABELLED Foreign bodies are one of the most common ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) urgencies. Serious complications may occur, like tympanic perforations and bronchoaspiration, but they are uncommon. AIM To analyze a 1356 foreign body series and establish causes for the complications, looking at prevention. MATERIALS AND METHODS 1356 patients with ear, nose and throat foreign bodies from the E...

The long history of philosophy, its continued virulence and increasing popularity suggests that it is a response to deep human needs for understanding and for the creation of meaning. The Correspondence: 17 Bowland Drive, Walton, ChesterŽ eld, Derbyshire S42 7LZ, UK. E-mail: [email protected] ISSN 1356–9082 (print) ISSN 1469-8498 (online)/02/010013–40 Ó 2002 European Association for Psychother...

whole system exhibits self-sustained relaxation oscillations with a period that heteroclinic cycles, laser dynamics, predator-prey, rate equations, relaxation well-known inherent feature of the photon-carrier dynamics in class-B lasers. 1340--1356 Stuart S. Antman and Herbert Koch SelfSustained Oscillations of Searching Predator and Prey Dominance in Discrete Predator-Prey Systems C. Mackey Rel...