Whose life is it anyhow?

Whose difficulty is it?

Whose future is it?

Good morning. It is a great honour to deliver this talk to a research community of which I have been a member when we were not sure that it was a domain of its own. It has since then developed in an impressive manner, and today it offers all the signs of a maturing scientific community in a technical field: a yearly conference with growing attendance, some structuring paradigms, progress in mod...

Whose responsibility is it to make life worth living?

In this editorial, we hope to reflect the image of current care, often labeled as good care, in nursing homes. The data are anecdotal, based on our visits to several clinical team meetings in nursing homes, but they raise issues which are common and need to receive higher priority. We describe seven resident vignettes that were presented in the team meetings. Ms. A. calls out all the time, unle...

whose responsibility is it anyway ?

Whose risk is it anyway?

Powell et al 1 have proposed the importance of 90-day mortality after lung cancer surgery, and have generated a predictive score using predominantly objective information. There are obvious advantages over the frequently quoted Thoracoscore which contains more subjective assessments of patient performance, and is based on data from a wide range of thoracic procedures including those for benign ...