Bacteria and the Surgeon [Abridged]

Anticoagulation Strategies for the Orthopaedic Surgeon: Reversal and Timelines

Article Highlights: 1) This article provides a full anticoagulant reference for the practicing orthopaedic surgeon which can be used in any clinical scenario, whether urgent or elective surgical intervention is required 2) A comprehensive list of anticoagulant reversal agents and drugs with short half-lives (for bridging) are described with the intention to provide the data needed t...

The History of Histograms (abridged)

The history of histograms is long and rich, full of detailed information in every step. It includes the course of histograms in different scientific fields, the successes and failures of histograms in approximating and compressing information, their adoption by industry, and solutions that have been given on a great variety of histogram-related problems. In this paper and in the same spirit of ...

Self-Representationalism and the Explanatory Gap, abridged

According to the self-representational theory of consciousness – selfrepresentationalism for short – a mental state is phenomenally conscious when, and only when, it represents itself in the right way. In this paper, I consider how selfrepresentationalism might address the alleged explanatory gap between phenomenal consciousness and physical properties. I open with a presentation of selfreprese...

Creativity and the surgeon.

This Robert E. Gross lecture is an analysis of the concept of creativity and how it relates to the practice of surgery. The questions-why surgery and creativity are closely associated; what influences creativity; why we should be concerned about it; and, finally, what rewards it brings-are discussed. In a personal note, the author describes his approach to creativity, with simplification as a c...

Endoscopy and the surgeon.