{"title":"LIST OF REFEREES FOR 2009","authors":"McClure","doi":"10.2326/048.009.0101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2326/048.009.0101","url":null,"abstract":"s of the Japanese Journal of Ornithology, Volume 58","PeriodicalId":94250,"journal":{"name":"The Ulster medical journal","volume":"6 1","pages":"2 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86924395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GET AHEAD! SURGERY: 250 SBAS FOR FINALS","authors":"R. Spence","doi":"10.1201/b13548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/b13548","url":null,"abstract":"This textbook, published in 2009, is aimed at Final Year students of Medicine sitting their Surgical examination paper. It contains 250 Single Best Answer questions. The layout is that the book contains five practice papers, each containing 50 questions. The student is advised to allow between 1–1½ hours per paper. The book gives the correct answer and, usefully, a brief commentary to that answer. There is a satisfactory, albeit short, examination-orientated discussion of the answer. \u0000 \u0000As with any textbook of this nature, there can be a few, albeit relatively minor, critiques such as the absence of the mention of laparoscopic surgery when discussing appendicectomy and perforated duodenal ulcer. The description of thyroid cancer would warrant a line or two on the usefulness of fine needle biopsy in most thyroid cancers apart from follicular tumour (in which it cannot distinguish benign from malignant). On Page 45, Question 1, on gallbladder incisions, it would be more appropriate to include a discussion of laparoscopic gallbladder incisions which are, by far, the most common method of surgical access for today's gallbladder procedures. In the index, under Thyroid Cancers, Pages 33 and 123 are given, but on Page 123 there is no mention of thyroid cancer. Leaving aside these relatively minor points, this book is a useful revision text for students undertaking Final Medicine examinations in Surgery. \u0000 \u0000The authors are relatively young, one being a Registrar in Emergency Medicine, the other being an academic Fellow in Vascular Surgery, and have a sense of the current standards of final surgical examinations in Medicine. The questions are in a modern format and the commentaries are, by and large, timely and up-to-date. The book can be recommended as a revision text in those anxious few months prior to medical finals.","PeriodicalId":94250,"journal":{"name":"The Ulster medical journal","volume":"8 1","pages":"203 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82077636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE FOR CHILDREN","authors":"N. M. Flanagan","doi":"10.1016/b978-1-4160-2299-2.x0071-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-1-4160-2299-2.x0071-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94250,"journal":{"name":"The Ulster medical journal","volume":"8 1","pages":"140 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84205448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"My hero","authors":"Andrew Uprichard","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvqsf3dq.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvqsf3dq.6","url":null,"abstract":"\"Dave Brubek, the swingingest!\" True words for our mentor Jack Rhymes with back track Kerouac. His words go, man, go. Like a man with no end his secrets he'll lend And the words go, man, go Right, Left, To and Fro Back to his Write which is Right, and on and on and on till the heavy coolness weighs heavy on battling eyes, and the tape runs out and your voice still echoes. sitting, watching, waiting Tell you what Take a rest Brother, allow us to show you some of our steps Right and Left and Write which is right, but Left -","PeriodicalId":94250,"journal":{"name":"The Ulster medical journal","volume":"89 1 1","pages":"80 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83927972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Testing Times","authors":"B. Kelly","doi":"10.1126/science.323.5919.1261d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1126/science.323.5919.1261d","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial Testing Times As I write, the inquests have begun. Two natural phenomena, one very large and one very small, have exercised our minds, and our economies, recently. The larger, a volcano under Iceland's Eyjafjallajoekull glacier, comprehensively grounded Europe's commercial airlines, causing chaos and stranding registered voters everywhere. The second was a microscopic villain. The influenza virus H1N1 (Swine Flu) surfaced in the United States, twirled its pantomime moustache menacingly, and ignited the 2009 pandemic. Governments immediately raced to stockpile supplies of vaccine and Tamiflu. In both cases, the question now being asked is whether the official response was over zealous. Many lives were lost to that influenza virus, but none to volcanic ash in jet engines. So far. For both events, however, the outcome might have been very different. Begging Wordsworth's indulgence, our retrospection is, I would contend, drama, recollected in tranquility. Conall McCaughey's superb and timely review considers the biology of that influenza virus. Using it as a template, he expounds on viral structure, its ubiquity and abundance, mechanisms of replication and dissemination, and how anti viral therapies work. Mature readers will recall diligently writing serial essays, confident in the knowledge that each would be marked with forensic fairness, by dedicated, selfless examiners who, with luck, would overlook minor obfuscations, and score hosanna's to their worthy prose. In the tick of a cosmic clock, those same readers would find themselves marking interminable essays; wading though cryptographic handwriting to unearth the morass of random half-learned facts that lay concealed, or perhaps, congealed, beneath. As an assessment tool, the essay is now a thing of the past, in medicine at least, and the multiple-choice question is looking like an endangered species too. In the second of this edition's reviews, Paul McCoubrie considers the assessment process, why it remains essential, and in an encyclopedic exposition, demonstrates just how far we have moved away from foolscap and writer's cramp. Professor Brew Atkinson's presidential Ulster Medical Society address is also within these pages. Professor Atkinson's masterly article details our understanding of the pituitary gland, from Ancient Egypt, via David and Goliath, to our current genetic understanding of pituitary-related diseases. My thanks, as ever, for all your papers. Please keep them coming. May I finally take this opportunity to wish you and yours a wonderful summer.","PeriodicalId":94250,"journal":{"name":"The Ulster medical journal","volume":"45 1","pages":"45 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75112221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anaesthesia and the Practice of Medicine: Historical Perspectives","authors":"D. Johnston","doi":"10.5860/choice.45-0914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.45-0914","url":null,"abstract":"This is a delightful volume written by two retired anaesthetists, one a Cambridge graduate and the other a graduate from Harvard. Both worked together at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1954–55. The book is divided into five parts. \u0000 \u0000Part 1 deals with the origins of anaesthetic drugs. The first use of anaesthetics is open to considerable doubt but excluding alcohol, hemlock, hemp and laudanum, the earliest recorded soporific effects of ether were described as far back as 1540. Nitrous oxide, discovered by a clergyman, Joseph Priestley, started off as a recreational drug and as a cure for tuberculosis and other respiratory illnesses. Beddoes and Humphrey Davy identified its pain relieving properties and in 1800 proposed its use in surgery. It was not until 44 years later that nitrous oxide was used to relieve pain during surgical procedures. Volatile anaesthetics ether and chloroform also started off as recreational drugs and cocaine, the first effective local anaesthetic, continues in that role. Cocaine was initially used to anaesthetise the cornea in eye surgery but as far back as 1889 it was used by the German surgeon August Bier to produce spinal anaesthesia. The last chapter in this section deals with the mechanical aspects of anaesthetics and their development – ventilators, heart-lung machine, and various types of anaesthetic apparatus. \u0000 \u0000Part 2 identifies the impact of a number of historical events, notably the Second World War, and the individuals who helped to establish anaesthetics as an important scientific and clinical discipline. The section concludes with three chapters on curare and neuromuscular blockade reflecting the enormous contribution of these drugs to modern day anaesthesia and the strong research interest of the authors. \u0000 \u0000Part 3 deals with the extension of anaesthesia into other areas of medical practice – maintenance of respiration in poliomyelitis and other diseases requiring respiratory intensive care, cardiac bypass for open heart surgery, cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and the development of short-acting anaesthetic agents for day surgery. Halothane hepatitis and the safety of anaesthetic agents are also discussed. \u0000 \u0000Part 4 discusses the role of the anaesthetist in childbirth and in the care of the newborn. Opposition to pain relief during Victorian times was largely silenced by Queen Victoria'a pronouncement, “We are going to have this baby and we are going to have chloroform”. The important contribution of Virginia Apgar to neonatal intensive care is also discussed. She introduced her Apgar score in 1953, which is probably the most famous eponymous acronym in medicine – Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration. \u0000 \u0000The final section concludes on a less optimistic note. This chapter concludes that anaesthetics, like a number of other medical academic disciplines, faces two major problems: the impact of the European Working Time Directive on clinical services and training, and the erosion of the aca","PeriodicalId":94250,"journal":{"name":"The Ulster medical journal","volume":"45 1","pages":"142 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89817160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE","authors":"C. Oakley","doi":"10.1002/9780470994955.ch15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470994955.ch15","url":null,"abstract":"UNLIKE most psychiatric textbooks for nurses, usually written by psychiatrists, these revision notes are written by a nurse tutor trained in both general and psychiatric nursing. The approach is problem orientated and the emphasis is on topics of practical value to nurses involved in patient care. A useful series of short selections contains sound advice on how to handle difficult types of patient. A team approach to the management of psychiatric patients is advocated and the functions of the various therapeutic team members are clearly defined. Brief notes are provided about many, though not all, modern developments in patient care. The common psychiatric syndromes are described in note form. A reading list is provided at the end of each section as well as a number of revision questions. The text is clear and concise , though necessarily condensed. Inevitably a number of inaccuracies of fact appear. Nevertheless, this book can be recommended to nurses as a useful short revision text. THIS monograph, which is one of a series on different tonics in medicine, is written by one of the most respected and leading experts in the field of coronary disease. In the preface the author states: \"It is the purpose of Coronary Artery Disease to marshal in one place the majority of the available information concerning the current practice of coronary heart disease,\" and he succeeds not only in doing this, but in presenting it in a concise and interesting fashion. The early chapters cover such topics as methods of investigation, pathogenesis of athero-sclerosis and the anatomy and physiology of the coronary circlulation. Later chanters are devoted to current views on the medical iand surgical treatment of obstructive coronary disease and the material is presented in a well-balanced form. At £13.50 the book is expensive, but it can be strongly recommended to all physicians involved in treating patients with ischaemic heart disease. THE claim on the dust cover of this book states that it is \"a full presentation, in accessible and largely non-technical language, of the biological and medical details of rabies, together with a discussion of present policies, in the U.K. and elsewhere, for its prevention and elimination\". Eight authors have written seven chapters on different aspects of the rabies problem in man and in animals which do much to substantiate the above claim. However, because of the multiple authorship, some unevenness in style is evident and there is …","PeriodicalId":94250,"journal":{"name":"The Ulster medical journal","volume":"113 1","pages":"133 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84864840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethics Manual","authors":"Bob Taylor","doi":"10.7326/0003-4819-114-9-826_11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-114-9-826_11","url":null,"abstract":"The differing activities and proclivities of males and females over the ages mean that Y-chromosomal DNA and mitochondrial DNA allow us to open a window on population histories, and put some flesh on the bare bones of legend and myth. Perhaps surprisingly, this approach is bearing significant fruit, some of which borders on the shocking. In 2003, Zerjal et al. reported an astonishingly high carriage rate of a recent Y-chromosome signature across the old Mongol empire up to 8% of the Y-chromosomes appeared to show an origin from around the time of Genghis Khan the tempting inference (which may well be correct) is that this is the genetic legacy of Genghis himself. He and his descendants were well known for their sexual voracity, and association with the ruling family would have boosted their reproductive luck somewhat.","PeriodicalId":94250,"journal":{"name":"The Ulster medical journal","volume":"60 1","pages":"64 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91054368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oxford Desk Reference: Clinical Genetics","authors":"T. Dabir","doi":"10.1093/med/9780192628961.001.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780192628961.001.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Clinical genetics is a relatively young speciality dealing with genetic disorders of all organ systems affecting all age groups. To say writing a comprehensive and useful book for clinical geneticists is a Herculean task is like stating the obvious. The authors of Oxford Desk Reference: Clinical Genetics deserve to be congratulated for achieving the impossible. This is one hands on guide sorely missed by trainee geneticists in the past. Dr Helen Firth and Dr Jane Hurst not only realised the need for such handbook but managed to address it effectively. \u0000 \u0000Oxford Desk Reference is divided into seven sections and contains over 600 pages. The book begins with glossary of terms used in the world of dysmorphology and genetics followed by a brief introduction of basic and essential concepts such as modes of inheritance, genetic testing and confidentiality. This symbolises the approach of the authors through out the book of ‘not taking anything for granted’ as far as the basic knowledge for the speciality is concerned. The second section deals with the clinical approach to various clinical scenarios (almost a hundred) faced by geneticists in their day-to-day practice. Differential diagnosis of one single clinical finding and the practical approach to it highlights this section. This section emphasises on a structured approach to a clinical problem and is quite stimulating. The third section deals with common genetics consultations giving a brief overview of common and uncommon genetic conditions. Around 400 pages are dedicated to these two sections making it an indispensable tool for geneticists and other physicians with interest in genetics. The fourth and fifth section deals with cancer genetics and various chromosomal disorders. The sixth section is about pregnancy and fertility. This contains a useful overview of the differential diagnosis of various antenatal scan findings and other issues commonly encountered in prenatal clinics. All the chapters in these sections end with information about relevant support group and the expert advisors. The last section is equally valuable with more than 50 pages encompassing growth and development charts, skeletal dysplasia charts, ISCN nomenclature and other useful information for clinicians. \u0000 \u0000Overall this book is a winner and is a must for every clinical genetics department. This is arguably the most important book ever published for trainees in genetics. However this should not be interpreted as less valuable for trained geneticists or other physicians with interest in clinical genetics. This is one book, which can be considered as an extremely useful reference source to any genetics physician. Be it a prenatal clinic, a cancer clinic or a dysmorphology clinic it is a desirable companion. As aptly described in the preface this book is a ‘peripheral brain’ and ‘life saver’ for the geneticists in many situations!","PeriodicalId":94250,"journal":{"name":"The Ulster medical journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"235 - 235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83096114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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