Doctors maintain patients' dependence, whereas counsellors give them control

YOU'VE got to give them credit.

You've Got to Give Them Credit by Ken Briggs NCR Today Here's a case study for Catholic Social Teaching. Would taking money to entice students to get credit cards fall inside or outside the lines? In 2009, the University of Notre Dame alumni association took $1.8 million from credit card peddlers (Bank of America, Chase and U.S. Bank doled out such sums)in exchange for promotional privileges, t...

Doctors should not cherry pick what information to give patients, court rules.

Doctors should no longer decide what information a patient should be given before agreeing to treatment, the UK Supreme Court has ruled in a historic judgment. The age of “medical paternalism” is over, and healthcare is now a partnership between patients and professionals, seven justices declared unanimously in the most important UK judgment on informed consent for 30 years. The judgment sweeps...

Models of signalling networks - what cell biologists can gain from them and give to them.

Computational models of cell signalling are perceived by many biologists to be prohibitively complicated. Why do math when you can simply do another experiment? Here, we explain how conceptual models, which have been formulated mathematically, have provided insights that directly advance experimental cell biology. In the past several years, models have influenced the way we talk about signallin...

Patterns of antigenic diversity and the mechanisms that maintain them.

Many of the remaining challenges in infectious disease control involve pathogens that fail to elicit long-lasting immunity in their hosts. Antigenic variation is a common reason for this failure and a contributor to the complexity of vaccine design. Diversifying selection by the host immune system is commonly, and often correctly, invoked to explain antigenic variability in pathogens. However, ...

Patients and Their Doctors