Getting into good company

Good Company

This is a delightful book, and in some ways an alarming one. It deals with the special entertainment films for children, produced by Mary Field for the J. Arthur Rank Organisation between 1944 and 1950. She called the book "Good Company", because her aim was to see that for a few hours each week, children should have an opportunity of "intimacy with good example", believing that "the friends yo...

Getting good reception.

The human brain contains hundreds of billions of neurons and connections, all busily engaged in transmitting the specialized electrical messages that allow the mind and body to sense and respond to the myriad stimuli encountered each moment of every day. In the NIEHS Laboratory of Signal Transduction, scientists study the mechanisms by which environmental agents disrupt these neural pathways, t...

Getting a good night's sleep.

Getting into Specialty Training

This book is aimed at trainee paediatricians and radiologists preparing for membership and fellowship examinations. It is written by 4 consultant radiologists and 1 consultant paediatrician. It opens with 8 short chapters outlining a system of image interpretation for the chest radiograph, a brief explanation of renal nuclear medicine, an example of normal fluoroscopy of the upper GI tract and ...

Getting men into medicine.

Men are finding it increasingly difficult to access a medical career. The current admissions criteria to gain entry to UK medical schools have resulted in more women being accepted than in the past. The situation is similar to 50 years ago, but in reverse, when women found it difficult to obtain a place to train in medicine. Fortunately this under-representation of females has gradually been re...