A Brief Introduction to Medical Misadventure

The medical humanities - a brief introduction.

BACKGROUND The medical humanities is a broad area of study and practice encompassing all nontechnical or 'human' aspects of medicine. OBJECTIVE This article introduces a series in the medical humanities in Australian Family Physician. DISCUSSION The medical humanities serve three main goals: the study of the human aspects of medicine from within traditional arts disciplines of history, phil...

A Medical Misadventure—Death from Sternal Puncture

Medical misadventure: barium extravasation in colorectal cancer.

Dear Editor, Double contrast barium enema (DCBE) is a safe and accurate diagnostic procedure for colorectal cancer. It is often the next diagnostic test after incomplete colonoscopy,1 with an additional diagnostic yield of 3.2% for neoplastic lesions larger than 1 cm in the non-visualised portion of the colon.2 However, severe complications of colorectal perforation can occur rarely in 0.02% to...

neurolaw: a brief introduction.

neurolaw, as an interdisciplinary field which links the brain to law, facilitates the pathway to better understanding of human behavior in order to regulate it accurately through incorporating neuroscience achievements in legal studies. since 1990's, this emerging field, by study on human nervous system as a new dimension of legal phenomena, leads to a more precise explanation for human behavio...

A Brief Introduction to ViSiDiA

We present a powerful software tool called ViSiDiA allowing to visualize and to simulate distributed algorithms. Our tool is intended to researchers and to teachers/students as well. We give a general view of ViSiDiA by describing its main features without going into technical or implementation details. More precisely, we show how ViSiDiA can be used in order to implement, test and experiment d...