All right, SQUIRE?

SQUIRE after one year.

DEVELOPMENT OF SQUIRE—THE IMPERATIVE FOR SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION Gaps in the quality of healthcare, characterised over a decade ago as a chasm, continue to demand systematic resolution. Local improvement initiatives are essential to better, safer care of patients, but the spread of such local improvement widely to other settings requires the scholarly publication that has always resided at the he...

I'm All Right

"Spoilt Baby into Angry Young Man". Her theme is that the way children are brought up today is so sloppy and spineless that the result is the Angry Young Man. To prove her thesis she has assembled a series of statements, carefully indexed, made by angry adults. This attitude towards the young is a stage we all go through as we get older; let us be thankful that like the young, we also grow out ...

All Polygons Flip Finitely . . . Right ?

Every simple planar polygon can undergo only a finite number of pocket flips before becoming convex. Since Erdős posed this finiteness as an open problem in 1935, several independent purported proofs have been published. However, we uncover a plethora of errors, gaps, and omissions in these arguments, leaving only two proofs without flaws and no proof that is fully detailed. Fortunately, the re...

The Kids Aren't All Right.

Ethics of right relation: all are responsible for all.

n the September-October 2010 issue of Health Progress, my colleague Ron Hamel, who alternates writing this column with me, discussed the unfinished business of health care reform.1 Among the items he mentioned was that a concern for the common good has been lacking in the debate. He ended his essay by suggesting that Catholic social teaching can be a resource for resolving the unfinished busine...