Work–Life Balance: Hopeless Endeavor or Rather, a True Privilege?

Work–Life Balance: Hopeless Endeavor or Rather, a True Privilege?

When I agreed to write this opinion piece onwork–life balance, I quickly added it tomy office whiteboard to-do list: “Work-Life Balance –October.” These fourwords generatedmuchdiscussion – from jokes about the short timetable that I have to achieve the perfect work–life balance to conversations about how we are all trying to find work–life balance. As a female academic intensivist and both an I...

Deterrence Theory — A Doable Reality or a Hopeless Cause?

In pursuing the above goal, Deterring Terrorism is part of a post-9-11 progression in thought. The initial belief was that terrorist organizations were irrational and therefore undeterrable. This assumption then had a direct impact on counterterrorism policy, which first privileged prevention, preemptive force and eradication over deterrence. This initial paradigm of terror, however, did not la...

Cloning human beings and the consumer of the future: a worthwhile endeavor or a nightmare come true?

Student Ratings of Instruction: True or False

Introduction. Students' evaluation of teaching is a major concern in higher education. In this regard, during the past 30 years hundreds of papers have been published which because of various grounds from valid, reliable to useless, such papers cannot be easily summarized. The present study investigated for two purposes, first was to out line opinions of two groups of advocates and opposites a...

A . Meyrier ) A hopeless case ?

End-stage renal failure in an octogenarian with advanced congestive heart failure is a daunting challenge for the physician. Many of these patients cannot tolerate haemodialysis, due to severely impaired left-ventricular function, valvular disease or both. In such patients, peritoneal dialysis may be the only feasible option but home therapy is often impossible, due to age, comorbidity and lack...