Good advice on airways, but measurements are not parameters

Parental Advice: Given Perhaps, but Not Received.

We all think we give good advice, and we think we do it well. We’ve mastered the anticipatory guidance section of the well-child or nursery visit. We have our formula: we cover the salient topics, throw in some personal experience, and assume our parental advice on child rearing has been received and understood. Unfortunately, as shown by Eisenberg et al in this issue of Pediatrics, we appear t...

Commentary: Good, but not perfect.

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Health professionals' advice for breastfeeding problems: Not good enough!

Jane Scott and colleagues have recently published a paper in the International Breastfeeding Journal showing that health professionals are still giving harmful advice to women with mastitis. We see the management of mastitis as an illustration of health professionals' management of wider breastfeeding issues. If health professionals don't know how to manage this common problem, how can they be ...

Good Programmers are Not Lazy

In this article I provide a practical analysis of programming practices and education. The phrase “Good programmers are lazy” is very often offered to students as a guide to good programming. This statement is very wrong and reflects some of the problems with attitudes in computer science today. 1 Lazy Programmers are

Progress in inflammatory myopathies: good but not good enough.