Gambling and hospital lotteries: looking out for losers

J Fletcher - CMAJ, 2013 - Can Med Assoc
I have just finished reading Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop, which has as its
subject the devastating effect of an old man's gambling on the people he loves. Dickens …

Hospital lotteries not always the best bet

R Collier - 2008 - Can Med Assoc
News focuses the values and principles that underpin the hospital's mandate and direction,
and thus is worthy of careful consideration and study.” Furthermore, claims Korn, the fact that …

[CITATION][C] The die is cast

D Waugh - CAN MED ASSOC J, 1997 - europepmc.org
There'sa bit of the gambler in all of us, and we should accept this as fact not only in our
patients but also in ourselves. I'm not referring just to the everyday chances we take in the …

The odds of getting 4 aces: 1 in 54, 14: Poker-loving COLIN FREEZE finds out first-hand why gambling is a national passion and a growing cause for concern …

C Freeze - Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada), 2005 - go.gale.com
And that's what it has come to. I've been playing poker at the sparkling new Fallsview Casino
for three nights. After a sensational start--with a stack of chips that made me feel like James …

Gambling with Lives

MJ Casey - First Things, 2009 - search.proquest.com
Abstract The Atlantic City beat cops spoke frankly about the rise in crime they witnessed after
the casinos opened in the late 1970s, and others were equally blunt about the decline in the …

[PDF][PDF] It's all in the game... highs and lows of hitting the jackpot

MD Griffiths - Nottingham Post, 2016 - irep.ntu.ac.uk
IT seems around half of the population buys a Lotto ticket at least once a month, and the
hard statistics tell us that we have a one in 45 million chance of winning the jackpot. So why …

[DOC][DOC] When gambling becomes obsessive

J Kluger, M August, H Gibson, N Isackson, C Masters… - Time Australia, 2005 - nkfust.edu.tw
For a man who hasn't bet a nickel since 1989, Bruce Roberts spends a lot of time in casinos.
He's rarely there alone, however. He usually has an escort walk him through--the better to …

[BOOK][B] Last bets: A true story of gambling, morality and the law

M McGuire - 2014 - books.google.com
On a Sunday evening in July 2011, 40-year-old Anthony dunning was pinned to the floor of
Melbourne's Crown casino by security staff. Four days later, he died in the intensive care unit …

[BOOK][B] The luck business

R Goodman - 1996 - books.google.com
In this damning indictment of legalized gambling, Goodman documents how this business,
which generates more than $40 billion dollars a year in revenues, is also the cause of …

[CITATION][C] Gambling on customers

DO Becker - McKinsey Quarterly, 2003 - MCKINSEY & CO INC