Free the spirit!

A free ‘app’ for plastic surgery: the smartphone spirit level

BACKGROUND Symmetry is one of the criteria of achieving a good aesthetic result. Realising this can be difficult. Attempts have been made to try and measure this symmetry using advanced and complex methods.1 For most surgeons on a daily basis the only practical way to measure symmetry is to use a simple measuring tool such as a measuring tape. However, this method is not very reliable as it dep...

Recollecting the Spirit of Jihad

The Spirit of Teaching

Tending to the spirit.

Editor's note: At this year's Catholic Health Assembly in San Diego, two highly regarded professionals who are deeply committed to fostering holistic approaches to health and health care are scheduled to take the stage. Rose Shandrow, system director of Spiritual Care Services at Franciscan Health System in Tacoma, Wash., is being honored by CHA this year with a mid-career award for outstanding...

Marguerite Porete in the Context of Female Religiosity and the Heresy of the Free Spirit