How it all happened

Liposomes in Drug Delivery: How It All Happened

Effective delivery of drugs via liposomes in the treatment or prevention of disease is the aim of numerous researchers worldwide.[...].

It shouldn't have happened, but it did.

It finally happened to me.

It finally happened to me: I was sued for malpractice by the family of a patient who had died suddenly. My inner turmoil in the aftermath of this traumatic event affected me deeply. While I was an experienced family doctor dedicated to patient-centered medicine, the event challenged my customary approach to my patients. I share three vignettes from my practice that describe my inner dialogue bo...

Misadventure during laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: why it happened? how to prevent and recover from it?

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is gaining popularity as a single stage procedure for morbid obesity1. It is regarded as a safer procedure than other more complex procedures as it avoids the long-term micronutrient deficiency1. LSG can present with major complications in up to 29% and among them, the staple line leak can be in 0-7%2. Here is reported a very rare and unusual complication w...

If it may have happened before, it happened, but not necessarily before

Temporal uncertainty in raw data can impede the inference of temporal and causal relationships between events and compromise the output of data-to-text NLG systems. In this paper, we introduce a framework to reason with and represent temporal uncertainty from the raw data to the generated text, in order to provide a faithful picture to the user of a particular situation. The model is grounded i...