Conquered: Why the Army of Tennessee Failed

Why the Electronic Land Registry Failed

[Context and motivation] In 2009 Denmark got a compulsory IT system for Land Registration of ownership. It soon created a national disaster because selling houses and getting mortgages might take months, rather than a couple of days. In this period, house owners had to pay a much higher interest rate. [Question/problem] The press claimed it was yet another IT failure, but actually the IT system...

Measles immunisation: why have we failed?

Measles is still a significant cause of illness in British children although a safe and effective vaccine has been available here since 1968. 1982 was a particularly bad year with a steep increase in the notification rate of measles that probably represents only a fraction of the real incidence. Thousands of children have been ill; many have had troublesome complications; and a few may even hav...

Why Not the Best? How Science Failed the Florida Panther

On a sultry spring night in 2001, wildlife photographer Brian Call was heading home from the back reaches of south Florida’s Fakahatchee Strand. As usual, he saw no sign of the forested swampland’s rarest inhabitants, the black bear and Florida panther—until he spotted a young panther, twisted and mangled in the middle of State Road 29. As Call sat beside the lifeless, still-warm body, he heard...

Credit risk models : why they failed in the credit crisis

Candidal renal papillary necrosis conquered.

Renal papillary necrosis due to Candida albicans is a rare but treatable cause of acute renal failure. We report this case of a middle aged male with history of type 2 diabetes mellitus who presented with infected right lower extremity and right lower lobe pneumonitis with hypotension. Though, he improved initially, during his stay in the hospital, he developed acute renal failure. Blood cultur...