Specialty within a specialty: posterior urethroplasty

Forensic psychiatry--a specialty.

The field of forensic psychiatry implies a distinction between it and other areas of psychiatry. Whether this field can be so clearly staked out as to be delineated as a subspecialty of psychiatry is the subject of this brief paper. I propose (1) to examine the question of whether it is justified to speak of forensic psychiatry as a subspecialty; (2) to explore the definition of forensic psychi...

Specialty Treatments

In simple terms, the wood cell wall is a composite made of a rigid cellulose polymer in a matrix of lignin and the hemicelluloses. The lignin polymer in the middle lamella and S2 layer is thermoplastic; that is, it softens upon heating. The glass transition temperature Tg of the lignin in the matrix is approximately 170°C (338°F). Above the matrix Tg, it is possible to cause the lignin to under...

Choosing a specialty.

surgery perhaps being one exception because it may require greater physical strength than most women possess; on the other hand, women are perhaps better suited than men to some specialties such as family planning. Most women marry within two years of qualifying as a doctor and most have a family. Their problems arise partly from living in a country which provides far less support than many oth...

Occupational medicine as a specialty.

Occupational medicine is one of the more recently accepted specialties and is best defined by the social context in which it is practiced. The current structure of the specialty is more easily understood in the light of its historical background. Occupational medicine brings together knowledge from a wide spectrum of disciplines which is reflected in its academic and research bases. A great var...

Chiropractic: a specialty with limitations?