A father's worst nightmare.

A father's worst nightmare.

Dengue fever: Pakistan's worst nightmare.

a MD, St Mary Mercy Hospital, Livonia, MI 48154, United States of America b MD, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States of America c Medical Student, Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore 45650, Pakistan Correspondence to Muhammad T Shakoor (e-mail: [email protected]) Dengue virus is presently amongst the most important arthropod-borne infections, from both the medical and p...

The situational judgement test: a student’s worst nightmare

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Multiple mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: our worst nightmare?

Pseudomonas aeruginosa carries multiresistance plasmids less often than does Klebsiella pneumoniae, develops mutational resistance to cephalosporins less readily than Enterobacter species, and has less inherent resistance than Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. What nevertheless makes P. aeruginosa uniquely problematic is a combination of the following: the species' inherent resistance to many drug ...

A surgeon's nightmare: Complications.

OBJECTIVE Our study aimed to determine the physically and psychologically most difficult complication resulting in chronic discomfort and occurring sensationally in the postoperative period of operations performed frequently in the daily surgical routine. MATERIAL AND METHODS We performed a survey among surgeons who participated in the 19(th) National Surgery Congress. The questions were rela...