Amid the High Cairngorms

Amid promise and peril, hold mission high.

Poverty amid plenty.

Clinical handoffs are tools aimed at bridging gaps that occur during transitions in care, whether across time (eg, shift changes) or across organisational boundaries (eg, the ward to the intensive care unit). They have long been viewed as potential threats to safety and are attracting increasing attention for several reasons. First, from a control theory point of view, handoffs are inherently h...

Securing Peace in South Asia amid the

Learning to move amid uncertainty.

We studied how subjects learned to make movements against unpredictable perturbations. Twelve healthy human subjects made goal-directed reaching movements in the horizontal plane while holding the handle of a two-joint robotic manipulator. The robot generated viscous force fields that perturbed the limb perpendicular to the desired direction of movement. The amplitude (but not the direction) of...

Helping patients see the light amid the darkness of addiction.

F m ORTLAND, Maine Mark Publicker's ^ affinity for Catholic health care was evident when talking with him at his office at the Mercy Recovery Center on a recent January morning. He shared the story of Sr. Ignatia Gavin, who was responsible for making St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, Ohio, the first hospital in the world to treat alcoholism as a medical condition in 1935, and for incorporating Alco...