Creating a Humanistic Surgical Theater

[Surgical education: the need of a humanistic vision].

The fragments and compartments of medical knowledge are not the only causes of difficulty found to form surgeons. The abandon of medical education associated with human science (social science) has formed professionals that understand biological science but don't understand life science. The distance from individual and cultural everyday reality enables one to not understand uniqueness and diff...

Surgical Theater Utilization and PACU Staffing

In this work, the surgical theater of a local hospital in KSA was analyzed using simulation. The focus was on attempting to answer questions related to how many Operating Rooms (ORs) to open and to analyze the performance of the surgical theater in general and mainly the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) to assist making decisions regarding PACU staffing. The surgical theater consists of ten ope...

The Aims of Boasian Ethnography: Creating the Materials for Traditional Humanistic Scholarship

Is Philosophy a Humanistic Discipline?

According to Bernard Williams, philosophy is a humanistic discipline essentially different from the sciences. While the sciences describe the world as it is in itself, independent of perspective, philosophy tries to make sense of ourselves and of our activities. Only the humanistic disciplines, in particular philosophy, can do this, the sciences have nothing to say about it. In this note I poin...

Information Theater versus Information Reenery Where Intelligence Resides Information Theater

Intelligent behavior of a system is often equated with its ability to perform logical or heuristic inferences. Intelligence is thought to reside in the ability to reene the knowledge base, and thus in the articulation of \new" facts beyond the set of assertions explicitly represented. The fragility and complexity of the inference mechanisms required for this invite attempts at imbuing other com...