T he first time I came across the situation of an employee of a group physician practice being admitted to the hospital owned by that practice for a slip-and-fall accident on a monthly basis amazed me. I was horrified to discover that the employee had 30 to 40 active insurance certificates, including health insurance, accident insurance, workers’ compensation, and automobile personal injury pol...

responded to it (p. 14). The book explains the author’s effort to understand what she calls the “double-edged morale” of international development organizations, whose goal, since the 1980s, seems to have been the creation of a new, post– Cold War political model, promoted in part through the distribution of humanitarian aid. The five chapter headings— “The Anthropologist’s Toolkit,” “First Ste...

Considerable academic effort is being expended in considering how to regulate various activities on the internet, particularly those as relate to obscene material, breaches of privacy and challenges to intellectual property rights. Post and Johnson (1997) offer the following solution which is typical; 'We believe that the most obvious answer to this question -existing territorial sovereigns -ma...

WASHINGTON (.fl The Supreme Court Monday barred draft exemptions lor men who claim conscientious objections to the lndochina war but not to all wars. The 8-1 ruling. based on what Justice Thurgood Marshall called a straightforward reading of Selective Service law, closes the door on Roman Catholics who subscribe to the "just war" doctrine as well as to other selective objectors. Marshall said t...

First paragraph: The history of literature and art offers no shortage of works created to offend or shock an audience, but few have been as incendiary as gangsta rap. Apologists cannot deny the problematic content of this form of rap—the misogynistic posturing, themes of intense violence, freewheeling and gratuitous obscenity—and some detractors hold that even the attempt to analyze the genre b...

Cardiac hypertrophy is defined as an abnormal increase in heart muscle mass and is functionally, mechanistically, and histologically distinguished from normal embryonic and postnatal myocardial growth by characteristic changes in cardiac myocyte shape and volume.1 Reactive hypertrophy, that is, hypertrophy that occurs in response to an extrinsic increase in cardiac work,2 is distinguished from ...

Before 2005, when the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative proposed a consensus definition [1], acute kidney injury (formerly known as ‘acute renal failure’) was identified by most clinicians in the way that Justice Potter Stewart identified obscenity: they knew it when they saw it. Epidemiologists and clinical researchers, who needed an objective criterion, seemed to devise a different definition...

Perhaps diabetes is a bit like obscenity: We know it when we see obvious cases, but it is difficult to develop one definition that encompasses the entire spectrum of disease. Hyperglycemia exists on a continuum, and persons destined to develop type 2 diabetes progress along this continuum over time, from having blood glucose concentrations that are physiologic, to those in some intermediate but...

The relationship between jurisdiction and the internet has been the subject of wide ranging discussion ever since the boom in domestic internet usage. Without clear legislation, laws have been created on an ad hoc basis, often in response to specific cases. It is difficult to predict whether any one law will ever be sufficient to cope with the great variety of alleged crimes which take place on...

Think back to lunch yesterday. You likely remember what you ate, where you sat, who you were with, what you talked about, and myriad other details combined in a cohesive memory. Now think back to lunch the day before yesterday. Though many of the details are probably the same, you likely do not have trouble discriminating between the two memories. This example highlights that episodic memories,...