It finally happened to me: I was sued for malpractice by the family of a patient who had died suddenly. My inner turmoil in the aftermath of this traumatic event affected me deeply. While I was an experienced family doctor dedicated to patient-centered medicine, the event challenged my customary approach to my patients. I share three vignettes from my practice that describe my inner dialogue bo...

In an interesting Turkish retrospective study, conducted between 2012 and 2015, involving 1510 adults, Kekilli et al.[1] tested triple therapy (lansoprazole 30 mg b.i.d., clarithromycin 500 mg b.i.d., and amoxicillin 1 g b.i.d.), bismuth group C (lansoprazole, clarithromycin, amoxicillin, and bismuth subsalicylate 524 mg b.i.d.), and bismuth group M (lansoprazole, amoxicillin, metronidazole 500...

Abstract Hericium is a well-known genus that comprises edible and medicinal mushrooms with fleshy, distinctive white spines hang from tough, unbranched clump, grows on dying or dead wood. In preparation for the artificial cultivation of these in Thailand, an optimization mycelial growth different agar culture media, various conditions (including temperature, pH, cereal grains, agricultural wast...

Recent results have demonstrated the feasibility of quasi-real-time, active as well as harmless microwave imaging for biomedical purposes. Such a pkreess allows tomographic reconstructions based on differences in the complex permittivity of tissues, the temperature dependence of which can be used for remote thermaf sensing. A basic experiment conducted in water at 3-GH2 yielded information on s...

Thermo-mechanical analysis (TMA) is typically employed for measurements of the glass transition temperature (Tg) and coefficients of thermal expansion (CTE) in molding compounds used in plastic encapsulated microcircuits (PEMs). Application of TMA measurements directly to PEMs allows anomalies to be revealed in deformation of packages with temperature, and thus indicates possible reliability co...

in this research the daily data of 69 climatic variables (wind direction, wind speed, dry temperature, wet temperature, maximum and minimum temperature, average daily temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, station level pressure, cloudiness, horizontal visibility, vapor pressure, …) of abumoosa synoptic station during the years 1362-1388 were studied. initially, a data base of variabl...