University students increasingly desire that traditionally taught courses be made available
online. While quality standards have been developed for the format and organization of online …

Background There is often a mismatch between patients’ desire to be informed about errors
and clinical reality. In closing the “disclosure gap” an understanding of the views of all …

There has been an important shift toward openness regarding adverse events and their
communication to patients. Recent research suggests that saying sorry is a key element of …

Mirroring Michel Foucault's The Birth of the Clinic (1963), which describes the philosophical
shift in medical discourse in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Fox television series …

Teamwork with individuals from multiple disciplines is recognized as a significant skill necessary
for professional employment. While a variety of teaching methods for students in health …

Whether America has realized President Herbert Hoover’s 20th-century vision of a “chicken
in every pot”, there is a television in nearly every home. Powerful and accessible, television …

With some exceptions, it appears that the nonincarcerated world spends little time, if any at
all, thinking about how prisoners are treated, whether during detainment or incarceration, …

The issue of apologising to patients harmed by adverse events has been a subject of interest
and debate within medicine, politics, and the law since the early 1980s. Although apology …

Saccades are rapid eye movements that move the line of sight between successive points of
fixation; they are among the best understood of movements, possessing dynamic properties …

Systemic corticosteroids play an integral role in the management of many inflammatory and
immunologic conditions, but these agents are also associated with serious risks. …