Retiring the Learning Curve

Retiring the central executive.

Reasoning, problem solving, comprehension, learning and retrieval, inhibition, switching, updating, or multitasking are often referred to as higher cognition, thought to require control processes or the use of a central executive. However, the concept of an executive controller begs the question of what is controlling the controller and so on, leading to an infinite hierarchy of executives or "...

The Retiring Director-General

were carried out New anatomical block, new chemical block, new mortuary, new pathological and physiological block, new military pupils' quarters. In connection with the hospital a new out-patient department was erected, and [ several other improvements carried outthe modernisation of the hospital begun in his time was brilliantly completed by his successor? the present Director-General?while mu...

The Bengal Medical Retiring Fund

A retiring fellow

A short while ago I received a letter asking me to step down from membership of a board on which I had been serving for quite some time. Normally I refuse to join boards or committees unless a finite, and preferably short, term of service is fixed in advance. But this particular job was not very onerous, I enjoyed doing it, and worst of all, I thought I was doing some good. So when I read the l...

Lessons from the learning curve.

Transcatheter aortic valve insertion (TAVI) has taken center stage, but TAVI is not easy to do, has limitations, and is a complex procedure requiring multiple operators. Thus, interventional cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, echocardiographers, anesthesiologists, and vascular surgeons have formed “teams” that come together to work in hybrid operating rooms or catheterization laboratories to perf...