Operationalising basic needs: A few fundamental reflections

EMS needs a few more cowboys.

• Treat a man like you'd treat a brother. People must be good to each other. EMS is a caring and helping profession, and you must always be kind to your patients and their families, your coworkers, your employer and those you deal with daily. By following this simple rule, a variation of the Golden Rule, you will likely be treated well yourself. Take care of your neighbors, and they will, in tu...

A basic scientist’s reflections on research funding

Scientists are among the most enthusiastic people when it comes to talking about their work. Despite this, it seems that it is the funding system that Canadian scientists most often discuss these days, and not their findings and new ideas. Needless to say, research can only exist with good and secure funding, but when obtaining funding becomes a dominant part of investigators’ activity, the sys...

Basic oral health needs: A professional priority?

The inadequacy of access to oral health care is a complex problem facing society. Many in society who need care are unable to obtain it or do not seek it for a variety of reasons. Most commonly, these are the unfunded, who simply have inadequate resources; the "unaccepted," who may not have dental coverage or have types of coverage that are not accepted by private practitioners; the inaccessibl...

Basic oral health needs: A public priority.

Is there a way to support a special ethical status for unmet oral health needs within our pluralistic, liberty-loving American society? Some people in American society, perhaps many people, believe that some kinds of human needs have special ethical importance. But very few people outside the oral health professions have ever considered that unmet oral health needs might belong to this category...

Basic Research Needs for Superconductivity