Looking after your new employee.

How to look after your patients by looking after yourself.

I t is sometimes said that the vocation of being a doctor would be simply marvellous if it wasn’t for the patients—who seem to get in the way of doing one’s job properly. Repeatedly the literature suggests that a major cause of burnout in professions that involve much dealing with the public is the emotional demands of such encounters. Yet despite the new emphasis on patient communication in va...

Employee Motivation: “Just Ask Your Employees”

Employee motivation is an intricate and sophisticated subject; however, contemporary managers must face and deal with this topic to obtain organizational success. To enhance understanding of employee motivation, mangers must recognize the imperativeness of employee motivation, its concepts, and differences in individual needs. Subsequently, managers need to be aware of a variety of employee mot...

Professionalism: looking for your blind spots.

Looking back on your statistical tool

provided the original work is properly cited. CC In this issue, we bring attention to two specific articles. Each exhibit strong rhetoric, which is rare in the world of scientific journals, in which storytelling is generally considered to be trivial. In the first article, Park et al. [1] stated that some previously reported confidence intervals for 95% thresholds estimated with the up-and-down ...

Looking after your partner: sentinel behaviour in a socially monogamous bird

Natural selection favours those individuals with effective anti-predator defences. The presence of sentinels is known to be an effective form of defence amongst stable groups of individuals within cooperative and polygynous breeding systems. However, the presence of sentinels in the more prevalent socially monogamous breeding systems remains overlooked as an important benefit of such partnershi...