When we mention "the world's second oldest profession," everyone understands immediately the ladies to whom we refer. But when we speak of "the world's oldest profession," these individuals are not so immediately identified. The world's oldest profession is that of the shaman or first professional, the shaman is ancestor not only to both the modern medicine man or doctor and the religionis prie...

Dr Richard Bright, the father of modern renal medicine, was born 200 years ago this year at 29 Queen Square, Bristol. The great medical triumvirate of Guy's Hospital in the 19th century Hodgkin, Addison and Bright have been immortalised by the attachment of eponyms to the diseases they decribed; however Bright although perhaps the most accomplished of the three, is less well remembered today. M...

Crossed cerebellar diaschisis and bright pulvinar are rare in patients with status epilepticus. We present a case of a 53-year-old man who was found confused, incontinent, and nonverbal. The EEG findings were consistent with non-convulsive status epilepticus. The brain MR images showed findings consistent with crossed cerebellar diaschisis and bright pulvinar. We report and discuss this case to...

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Abstract Complexity science permeates the policy spectrum but not antitrust. This is unfortunate. provides a high-resolution screen on empirical realities of markets. And it enables rich understanding competition, beyond reductionist descriptions markets and firms proposed by neoclassical models their contemporary neo-Brandeisian critique. New insights arise from key teachings complexity scienc...