I am grateful for the opportunities I have had of associating myself in thyroid work with the late Cecil Joll, Sir Thomas Dunhill and Geoffrey Kaynes, and for the benefit derived by me from their vast experience. I wish to thank Miss E. M. Dean, Laboratory Technician to New End Hospital, for her careful compiling of statistics and records; Mr. J. E. Andrews, L.C.C. Medical Photographer and fina...

A 25 year old woman was referred for the evaluation of haemoptysis. For one year she had been complaining of cough and recurrent blood streaked sputum, without dyspnoea, fever, chills or weight loss. She was not asthmatic, her childhood was free of pulmonary complaints, and there was no family history of pulmonary disease. Before this episode, she had been healthy. She had never smoked and had ...

During my tenure as director of the Postal Inspection Headquarters Laboratory (1988-1992), a Postal Inspector submitted a computer to examine for the presence of specific evidence he had enumerated in the letter of request. The evidence technician logged in the computer, assigned it a case number, and brought the request to me, inquiring “What should we do with this?” That was the beginning of ...

This clinical report demonstrates how a clinician can objectively overcome some of the barriers associated with providing patients with predictable esthetics, in a mutually satisfactory manner. Two such barriers are identified and discussed. The first is related to psychology and patient attitude to treatment. The second is related to the actual clinical procedure. A direct mock-up technique is...

UNLABELLED OBJECTIVE : The purpose of this study was to elicit feedback from simulation technicians prior to developing the first simulation technician-specific simulation laboratory in Akron, OH. BACKGROUND Simulation technicians serve a vital role in simulation centers within hospitals/health centers around the world. The first simulation technician degree program in the US has been approve...

Introdouction: One of the reasons that cause a pathologist to make an incorrect diagnosis includes artifacts leading to tissue changes and artificial structures in microscopic slides. The aim of this study was to examine the artifacts in histopathological slides in Zahedan School of Dentistry. Materials and methods: In this cross-sectional study, all the available slides in Oral and Maxil...

INTRODUCTION Many additional tasks in the Stat laboratory (SL) increase the workload. It is necessary to control them because they can affect the service provided by the laboratory. Our aim is to calculate these tasks, study their evolution over a 10 year period, and compare turnaround times (TAT) in summer period to the rest of the year. MATERIALS AND METHODS Additional tasks were classified...

Sommerville [10] and Davies [2] classified the spherical triangles that can tile the sphere in an edge-to-edge fashion. Relaxing this condition yields other triangles, which tile the sphere but have some tiles intersecting in partial edges. This paper determines which right spherical triangles within certain families can tile the sphere.