The community physician: will he survive?

The Stethoscope at the Age of 200: Will "He" Survive?

Olympics : who will survive ?

I t is evident that anyone required to perform at a high level in sport or other physically demanding occupation has a limited number of years before demands made on the body begin to take their toll, sometimes accompanied by difficulties of a psychological nature. Although there may be a good deal of informal support from family, friends, and perhaps even other athletes who have retired, in so...

Will Cognitiob, survive?

An early decision for the theorist is that of deciding on a for-m of expression. My own decision in this respect has been to adopt the conventions of information processing modelling. The main principle here is to try to isolate processes which can be regarded as functionally modular. These processes are symbolised by boxes with inputs and outputs specified, usually in terms of the form of the ...

Will undergraduate geriatric medicine survive?

of relevant research to establish best practice, hopefully arising as much from within the NHS as the academic sector, through its reconfigured R&D programme including the new Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network (DeNDRoN). • The fifth consequence would be the emergence of an evidence base that could properly inform the commissioning process and better define the roles of pr...

Will tribal knowledge survive the millennium?

As we begin a new millennium and contemplate how our current understandings might be evaluated in 1000 years, it may be useful to look backward. What pieces of knowledge do we treasure that come from 1000 years ago? Accounts from the end of the last millennium herald innovations like the metal plow but were imbued with folk knowledge from an era when trolls, fairies, and personifications of the...