Ranolazine-Induced Confusion: Might Hurt More Than Angina

TV nurses often hurt more than heal.

What we don't know might hurt us.

At age sixteen, Rodney Bruntmyer was sentenced to eight years in prison for setting a dumpster on fire.2 He was raped and then removed from, and against his wishes returned to, the general population.3 There he was raped again and repeatedly forced to perform oral sex on other inmates.4 At age seventeen, Rodney hung himself in his cell.5 His mother recalls that when she talked to the warden reg...

Fluid therapy might be more difficult than you think.

Robert G. Hahn, MD, PhD Young anesthesiologists have long been taught that the replacement of losses is the key target in the management of IV fluid therapy. During surgery, a fluid deficit is undoubtedly created by preoperative fasting, surgical blood loss, evaporation, and urinary excretion. The vasodilatation induced by many forms of anesthesia allows the vascular space to contain more plasm...

Being Nativist about Mindreading: more Demanding than you Might Think

Two distinct theses are sometimes argued for, or against, together in the debate on early mindreading: that infants mindread, and that this occurs thanks to innate mental notions. When this is the case, the underlying assumption is that mental notions cannot be learned early in infancy, and therefore at that stage they must be either innate or not present at all. I do not intend to directly arg...

Belief in optimism might be more problematic than actual optimism

People appear to be biased in their predictions of the future; predicting that projects will take less time than they actually will (see Roy et al., 2005a; Buehler et al., 2010; Halkjelsvik and Jørgensen, 2012, for review) and that they will be unlikely to experience future misfortunes (see Dunning et al., 2004, for review). These biases are frequently attributed to people being overly optimist...