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Research in Montreal's St-Jean-de-Dieu Asylum archives has revealed a number of letters from family members and local physicians pleading for asylum care for married women between 1890 and 1921. When added to other admission documents in patients' medical files, these letters allow a...
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PMID: 21329143
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A good deal has already been written about the last months of Andreas Vesalius' life. Most of it has been fairly speculative, because the necessary primary sources have been lacking. Much of what was supposedly known for sure seemed bizarre, and various writers even frankly characterised their own ac...
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PMID: 21560612
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British Journal for the History of Science (43)159 Pt 4 2010
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I show how the movement of things and people problematizes the notion of a single 'centre of calculation', even where a dominant figure like Réaumur was managing collections and producing authoritative texts. Réaumur was indeed managing the flow of observations, letters and specimens from his priv...
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PMID: 21553628
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Homeopathy (99)3 2010
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We can only find a number of different conceptions or paradigmatic ideas of health, in a variety of references and combinations. Health was seen as: 1. harmonious balance between principles or entities, 2. result of a struggle against opposing forces, 3. continuous dialectical process, 4. hierarchy...
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PMID: 20674847
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The work of Dr William E. Ladd after a devastating explosion in Halifax in 1917 has been credited with his decision to devote his subsequent career to the betterment of surgical care for children. He has been recognized as the "father of pediatric surgery" in North America. The authors present a wri...
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PMID: 20438913
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Although therapeutic letters (TLs) have been included in graduate nursing programs, studies have not examined the impact of TLs on the clinical learning of undergraduate students. This qualitative study was part of a larger project that introduced TLs into already established undergr...
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PMID: 19940088
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Although therapeutic letters (TLs) have been included in graduate nursing programs, studies have not examined the impact of TLs on the clinical learning of undergraduate students. This qualitative study was part of a larger project that introduced TLs into already established undergr...
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PMID: 19940088
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British Dental Journal (208)8 2010
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether the use of referral letters with and without photography will make a difference to prioritising patients to the oral medicine department. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING Oral medicine department of Birmingham Dental Hospital. METHOD Forty-eight photographs were...
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PMID: 20418808
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The focus of this qualitative study was to explore patient's perceptions of having received a therapeutic letter (TL) from a nursing student. Patient feedback contributes to student learning and is especially salient when students are trying to understand complex relationships and to deliver care th...
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PMID: 20218770
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In most studies using informant reports of personality, the informants are recruited by the targets. Such informants may tend to like the targets and thus portray them in specific ways (e.g., too positively). Study 1 (N = 403) demonstrated the necessity to distinguish between "liking" and "knowing"...
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PMID: 20307137
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Primary Dental Care (17)2 2010
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The findings indicate a need to improve the amount of information provided in referrals to the sedation department of Newcastle Dental Hospital in order to ensure appropriate allocation to sedation services. The quality of referrals may be improved by the distribution of referral guidelines, the use...
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PMID: 20353657
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Primary Dental Care (17)2 2010
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Most of the referrals sent in 2005 and 2008 included 40-50% of the referral inclusion points. This was despite an almost twofold increase in the number of referral letters received from specialist orthodontic practitioners in 2008. The majority of the letters, from both GDPs and specialists, did not...
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PMID: 20353655
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The National Health Service Plan of 2000 proposed that patients should receive a copy of all correspondence regarding their care. There is concern that the readability of patients' letters may not be appropriate for many patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study determined readability scores for s...
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PMID: 19954560
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Since 2006, Britain has been fighting an intense military campaign in Helmand in which over 200 soldiers have been killed. The article examines the way in which twentieth-century commemorative rituals, which mourned the sacrifice of anonymous individual soldiers for the nation, have been superseded...
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PMID: 20377594
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Quitline calls from baseline to the end of the intervention from the intervention district compared with a comparison district were not significantly higher (5%, 95% CI -2-12%, p = 0.195), but nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) voucher redemptions were significantly higher (9%, 95% CI 3-16%, p = .00...
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PMID: 20690396
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This essay considers Charles Darwin's late work, "Cross- and Self-Fertilization of Plants," locating it in the overall context of Darwin's thought and ideas. It is shown how it is part of a long-term interest in the purpose of sexuality, and how it complements Darwin's earlier book on the fertilizat...
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PMID: 20338527
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I have chosen only three of them to analyze now. They are the letters from Mr. Prof. J.J. Berzelius (Stockholm), Mr. Dr. P. J. Cretzschmar (Frankfurt am Main) and Mr. Prof. J.B. Wilbrand (Giessen). The full list of correspondent members to the society in Jassy can be read in the who-is-who of the sc...
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PMID: 20509319
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The journal Broteria has covered a long path, since its foundation in 1902 until the mid 20's, when it stands as one of the best journals of natural history and a voice of the renewal of the natural sciences in Portugal. Broteria's success was due, mainly, to the remarkable qualities of its founders...
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PMID: 21186699
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The couple presented in this article contributed significantly to the spreading of psychoanalysis in Switzerland, albeit mainly due to Emil O. who established the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis in 1919 and was its head up to its split in 1928. Less known is the influence of his Lithuanian Jewish w...
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PMID: 20503773
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The Austrian writer A. Fischer-Colbrie underwent an analysis with Freud in 1915-16 and then again in 1919. Based on his literary estate, this article tries to shed some light on the biographical background and the precipitating factors of his mental problems. When the cure had to be interrupted beca...
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PMID: 20503774
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The patient who is the subject of this article was the nationalistic Czech politician and journalist Gustav Eim. The authors publish for the first time a long and detailed referral letter of Freud's to Robert Binswanger, director of the sanatorium Bellevue in Kreuzlingen, as well as a short letter t...
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PMID: 20503770
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This article considers the two major biographies of sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, MD (1868-1935), an early campaigner for "gay rights" avant la lettre. Like him, his first biographer Charlotte Wolff (1897-1986) was a Jewish doctor who lived and worked in Weimar Republic Berlin and fled Germany when...
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PMID: 20422759
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There is disagreement in the suicide literature on the value of suicide notes as a data source, particularly regarding the extent to which suicide decedents who write notes differ from those who do not. Using 10 years of suicide cases from Summit County, Ohio, these two groups were compared on 40 va...
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PMID: 19929155
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We propose a reciprocity-based theory to explain suicides associated with relationship problems. Employing a content analysis of suicide notes, we tested the theory, finding evidence of exploitation, exploiter guilt, retaliation, and retreat as motives for committing relationship-based suicide. Reci...
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PMID: 19929149
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Letters to the editor are brief texts that are published in a special section of medical journals. There are two types of letters to the editor: the observation and the comment. The former presents original work, while the latter constitutes criticism on work already published in the same journal. A...
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PMID: 19935598
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Georg Josef Camel (1661-1706) went to the Spanish colony of the Philippine Islands as a Jesuit lay brother in 1687, and he remained there until his death. Throughout his time in the Philippines, Camel collected examples of the flora and fauna, which he drew and described in detail. This paper offers...
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PMID: 20014508
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A writer's work, whether scientific or literary, involves certain ethical risks, some of which are peculiar to psychoanalysis. Although the ethics of publishing reports that contain sensitive clinical material has been discussed extensively in the psychoanalytic literature, the ethics of publishing...
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PMID: 19928445
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A close reading of Raymond Carver's stories, interviews, essays, and letters explores aspects of his relationships with his father, his teacher John Gardner, and in particular his influential editor, Gordon Lish, as they relate to his writing and to his development as a writer. It is proposed that t...
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PMID: 19507450
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In a concerned response to the shortage of organs the office of Senator Specter of Pennsylvania has been the source of a proposal to amend the 1984 United States National Organ Transplant Act, which has been interpreted to prohibit such incentives. The proposal would permit various forms of financia...
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PMID: 19300257
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Death Studies (33)4 2009
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Suicide notes have been regarded as one of the most informative data sources to understand the reasons why people commit suicide. However, there is a paucity of suicide note studies, leaving researchers with an assumption that this phenomenon remains static over time. This study examines this assump...
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PMID: 19368065
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Yale University medical and PA students express their gratitude in a compilation of reflections on learning human anatomy.
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PMID: 19325945
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Evaluate enrollment numbers, randomization rates, costs, and cost-effectiveness of active versus passive recruitment methods for parent-child dyads into two pediatric obesity intervention trials.
Recruitment methods were categorized into active (pediatrician referral...
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PMID: 19922036
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Osler Library newsletter ()112 2009
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Osler Library newsletter (111) 2009
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Medical History (53)1 2009
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Salud Publica de Mexico (51)4 2009
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The results suggested that there are more psychological commonalities than differences. Yet, as this study marks the first one using suicide notes, between Mexico and the USA, much greater study is warranted....
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PMID: 19668926
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After her unfortunate experience of parturition Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia, married to stadhouder Prince Willem V, received two letters of comfort from her beloved godfather King Frederick II (Frederick the Great) of Prussia. These letters illustrate the special close connection there was betwee...
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PMID: 20051174
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Bulletin for the history of chemistry / Division of the History ofChemistry of the American Chemical Society (34)2 2009
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Quality in primary care (17)1 2009
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It was not possible to differentiate which letters related to patients in each of the four categories (P = 0.6). Patients who failed to attend were more symptomatic than those with a histological lesion (35.4 versus 28.2, mean difference 7.14, 95% confidence interval (CI) 14.1 to 0.15, P = 0.045). P...
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PMID: 19281672
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The nearly 500 pages of letters (edited and commented in a medical dissertation by the author), written by a Prussian Princess in the 19th century to Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homoeopathy, provide a fairly complete patient history thanks to the homoeopathic method which obliges patients t...
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PMID: 20506731
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