Life after Jarvis—Just How Much Help Must You "Voluntarily" Give the Canada Revenue Agency?

Compassion fatigue: how much can I give?

An increasing number of publications examine the disturbing effects on clinicians of witnessing or learning of trauma experienced by their patients. This vicarious traumatisation is described in various terms, including secondary victimisation, secondary survival, emotional contagion, counter-transference, burnout and compassion fatigue. It is generally accepted that, while they have significan...

How much do you believe?

This paper responds to a number of criticisms of Dempster-Shafer theory made by Judea Pearl. He criticises Dempster-Shafer belief for not obeying the laws of Bayesian belief," however, these laws lead to well-known problems in the face of ignorance, and seem unreasonably restrictive. It is argued that it is not reasonable to expect a measure of belief to obey Pearl's sandwich principle. The sta...

Canada must help the wounded children of Gaza.

How much would you give to save a dying bird? Patient advocacy and biomedical research.

In 1994, Frank McCormack, a pulmonologist interested in innate immunity, arrived at his new job at the University of Cincinnati to find a letter on his desk. It was from Sue Byrnes, a music teacher whose 22-year-old daughter Andrea had been diagnosed with lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), a slowly progressive cystic lung disease that affects about 5 in 1 million women worldwide. Andrea, an avid s...

How double eyelashes give you swollen legs.