Intimal expansion by vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) is a characteristic feature of graft
vascular disease. Whether graft intimal SMCs arise from donor or recipient tissue is not well …

Addresses the constellation of factors including atavistic impulse, patient-doctor relationship,
and medical care as a supply-demand phenomenon in the common imagination, that lead …

In a recent issue of this journal, Stephen G Post (1) presented what he calls'a set of moral
arguments regarding the selective abortion of fetuses on the basis of prenatal screening for …

… WILLIAM G PICKERING Health and Safety Executive Medical Division, Gosforth, Tyne
and Wear …

To omit the word kindness in medical practice and journals, in favour of fashionable notions
such as "care" and "skills", is not in patients' interests. Health professionals may come to the …

… I received the 23d, and expect this will be handed to you by William Pickering on your return
from the country. William brings with him his books and clothes, and £6 28. 5d., the balance …

The implications of the causal and ubiquitous use, by doctors health-workers and politicians,
of the word 'patient' are here discussed. Given that the many implications of this noun do …

Even in the best of medical hands communication can be incomplete. Some time ago an
acquaintance, knowing I was medical, told me that she had discovered a problem in her breast …

Sir—Shyam Sundar has to be congratulated for his aim of shortening the duration of treatment
and time in hospital for patients with visceral leishmaniasis in India by increasing the …

Sir, The assessment and teaching of practical skills of trainees is frequently neglected. For
instance, some trainers assume that they do not need to teach their trainee to take a blood …