INTRODUCTION - WHY WE ARE HERE

Remind me again: why are we here?

Introduction of a rapid response system: why we are glad we MET

Hospital patients can experience serious adverse events during their stay. To identify, review and treat these patients and to prevent serious adverse events, we introduced a medical emergency team (MET) service into our hospital in September 2000 following a 1-year period of preparation and education. The introduction of the MET into our institution has been associated with profound changes to...

Introduction: why and how we mimic emotions

Mimicry and its presumed neurological underpinnings in the form of mirror neurons have become a trending topic in the social, behavioural, and neurosciences during the past decades (e.g. Hess & Fischer, 2013). The notion that minds can be shared by subtly imitating others is a challenging idea that sparks our imagination. For ages, philosophers and scientists have been intrigued by the question...

Why Are We Right Handed

ness for according to himself uncivilized man tends to the same practice. The wild aborigines in the Andaman Islands use their right hands for the actual discharge of the arrow from the bow. It is the same with semi-civilized races on the N. W. Frontier, in Somaliland, and elsewhere that I have observed. Let Ur. Jaensch more carefully observe an infant and he will see its pronounced tendency to...

Why are we here? A study of patient actions prior to emergency hospital admission.

INTRODUCTION Emergency department (ED) attendances and subsequent hospital admissions are rising in the United Kingdom. The reasons for this are unclear but may relate to recent changes in primary care and public perception. The actions taken by patients or their relatives before emergency hospital admission, the reasons for these actions and their outcome were determined. METHODS Adult patie...