BACKGROUND While the role of some personality traits has been comprehensively explored, scientific study of others, such as patience has been neglected. Psychologists have paid scant attention to patience as a personality trait, character strength or virtue. OBJECTIVES The current study examined the relationship between patience and life satisfaction, mental health, and personality. MATERIA...

607 ISSN 1758-3004 10.4155/CMT.11.59 © 2011 Future Science Ltd The converging of climate disruption, energy descent and economic instability is stressing civilization, perhaps foreshadowing a downshift to a lower level of complexity [1]. It is easy to despair at the unsustainability of human behavior; however, such despair may come from taking too narrow and pessimistic a view of human nature, ...

We are, indeed, fortunate in the Anesthesia Department at North Carolina Baptist Hospital to have an excellent supply of equipment. Yet, we are guilty, at times, of failing to take full advantage of it. A prime example is the temperature probe, a valuable aid in the diagnosis of malignant hyperpyrexia. In fact, it is so important that failure to monitor body temperature during anesthesia may ha...