Re-skilling the brain

Two Sewing Needles in the Brain: A Case Re-port

Brain foreign bodies and penetrating missile injuries of the brain are familiar topics for Iranian physicians, especially after Iran and Iraq war. But it’s not easily plausible that there is a couple of sewing needles in the cranium of a patient who has not any history of head trauma or penetrating injury. The patient was a 42-year-old man who admitted in neurology ward of Mottahari Hospital in...

Skilling And The Pursuit Of Healthcare Fraud

two sewing needles in the brain: a case re-port

brain foreign bodies and penetrating missile injuries of the brain are familiar topics for iranian physicians, especially after iran and iraq war. but it’s not easily plausible that there is a couple of sewing needles in the cranium of a patient who has not any history of head trauma or penetrating injury. the patient was a 42-year-old man who admitted in neurology ward of mottahari hospital in...

Biotechnology and Agricultural Skilling in India

Paper presented at the Conference on Biodiversity, Biotechnology and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge, Washington Univ. School of Law. Submitted to Prof. Charles McManis of the Washington Univ. Law School with the an agreement that I will have an opportunity to update the paper before it is published. This is vital because the paper deals with a rapidly changing situation in India, and s...

Re-thinking the brain: a frog leaps.

The notion that one was, when one had completed one’s studies (first the biological sciences and then medicine itself), going to be able to understand how people thought and how they behaved, was undoubtedly one of the factors that kept me struggling on with the load of medicine. And somehow at that time the mystique of my teachers and seniors suggested that they did indeed have that knowledge....