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Percy is very confused. When he wakes from his long sleep, he didn't know much more than his name, Percy Jackson. His can't remember much of anything of his past, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight. Somehow Percy manages to make it to a camp for... read more
"Percy didn't know why she kept doing that, but if he ever needed a suit of armor, he was going to make it out of Crispy Cheese 'n' Wieners. That stuff was indestructible."Percy
"She's so nice! All the other campers are like. 'Go away, Don.' But she's like, 'Please go away, Don.' I love her!"Don the Faun
"Dude," Percy said, "I could eat Prancer and Blitzen, too. I'm *hungry*."Percy
"Enough, Dakota. Let's leave Larry's podex out of this."Reyna
"Clipboard. Spa. Pirates."Percy
"Do you still want to slap me, dear?" she asked. Percy stopped midstream. He let go and dumped the goddess in the river."Hera and Percy
"Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate."Frank's Grandma
"Percy already felt like the lamest demigod in the history of lame. The purse was the final insult."Percy
"It wasn't as hard as they thought. The screaming and the weed whacker helped."Percy
"Percy knelt in the bow, steering them toward the ocean with his freaky mind-over-water powers."Hazel
"The Pegasus? It'll be fine. Someone must have ordered it. The shipping and handling charges are steep."Kinzie
"Wow." Percy handed back the book. "Maybe Mars is different than Ares. I don't think Ares can read."Percy
"Annabeth had mentioned it too, back in August, when she'd speculated that the giants might be part of the new Great Prophecy—what the Romans called the Prophecy of Seven. (That was the downside of dating the smartest girl at camp: you learn stuff.)"Percy
"War is a duty. The only real choice is whether you accept it, and what you fight for."Mars
"Great offer. But I think I'll just kill you instead."Percy
"The store had a hand-painted sign that read: MOOSE PASS GAS. "That's just wrong,"."Frank
"Could you give us a ride north?" Percy asked, "like as close as to Portland as possible?""Eat seals," the whale responded. "Are you seals?""No," Percy admitted. "I've got a man satchel full of macrobiotic beef jerky, though." The whale shuddered."Promise not to feed me this, and I will take you north.""Deal."Percy and a whale (telepathically)
"Nice creepy reptile," Frank said, very aware of the driftwood in his coat pocket. "Nice poisonous, fire-breathing reptile."Frank
"First, you start carrying a man satchel. Next thing you know, you're running around in a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers, chasing chickens with a weed whacker."Percy
"He slaughtered my panda" Percy said, "Yeah, Teddy bears must have nightmares about that guy"Percy and Nico
"Eight months of his life stolen. Next time Percy saw the Queen of Olympus, he was definitely going to give her a goddess-sized slap upside the head."Percy
"Water cannon up my nose!"Camper
"It's Cupid," Frank said. "A really buff Cupid," Percy agreed."Frank and Percy
"The cohorts storm the base while they were sitting around playing mythomagic"Narrator
"...a horrible scenario flashed through his mind: his body smashing against an SUV's windshield, some annoyed commuter trying to push him off with the wipers. "Stupid sixteen-year-old kid falling from the sky! I'm late!""Percy
""House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?""Percy
"A good Roman should be in the fray, gutting his enemy with spear and sword like a civilized man!"Vitellius
"Octavian stood in front with a knife and a Beanie Baby lion, just in case anyone needed to consult the god of cutesy collectibles."Percy
"Reyna's hand rested halfway between her dagger and the jelly beans. Percy had a feeling that if she made a sudden move, she wouldn't be grabbing for the candy."Percy
""How'd you hold them off so long?" She pointed to the rock. "A big pile of schist." "Excuse me?""Percy and Hazel
"I will trample you to death, silly Chinese Canadian baby man."Arion
"You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns out sour in the end. But if you take the hard path-ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something."Mars
"Welcome to Canada, idiot."Frank
"They frolicked around, slamming into each other, breaking fortifications, and generally having an excellent time."Percy
"It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape."Percy
"Life is only precious because it ends"Mars
""Self pity isn't helpful, kid. It isn't worthy of you.""Mars
""Is that sarcasm Frank Zhang?" "Yes grandmother" "Good. There may be hope for you yet.""Grandma and Frank Zhang
""What are these guys?" he whispered. "Canadians," Percy said. Frank leaned away from him. "Excuse me?""Frank and Percy
""You're alive!" Frank marveled. Percy frowned. "The fall? That was nothing. I fell twice that far from the St. Louis Arch.""Frank and Percy
"Just over the river and through the woods"Percy and frank
"Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction. Yep"Ella
""Unfair? You can breath underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hurricanes- and it's unfair that I get to be an elephant?""Frank
"That was either the bravest thing I've ever seen, or the stupidest."Hazel
""Great, I've always wanted to be glue.""Percy Jackson
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In September, the government agency eased several requirements for the purchase of condominium units through August 2014.
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But a fan also consumes power — for a laptop, that is an extra drain on the battery. And fans alone are not always sufficient to cool the computer arrays used in data centers, many of which rely on heat exchangers that use liquid to cool the air flowing over the hot chips.
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Still larger machines demand more drastic measures. As Bruno Michel, manager of the advanced thermal packaging group at IBM in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, explains: "An advanced supercomputer would need a few cubic kilometers of air for cooling per day." That simply is not practical, so computer engineers must resort to liquid cooling instead.
Water-cooled computers were commercially available as early as 1964, and several generations of mainframe computers built in the 1980s and 1990s were cooled by water. Today, non-aqueous, non-reactive liquid coolants such as fluorocarbons are sometimes used, often coming into direct contact with the chips. These substances generally cool by boiling — they absorb heat and the vapor carries it away. Other systems involve liquid sprays or refrigeration of the circuitry.
SuperMUC, an IBM-built supercomputer housed at the Leibniz center, became operational in 2012. The 3-petaflop machine is one of the world's most powerful supercomputers. It has a water-based cooling system, but the water is warm — around 45 °C. The water is pumped through microchannels carved into a customized copper heat sink above the central processing unit, which concentrates cooling in the parts of the system where it is most needed. The use of warm water may seem odd, but it consumes less energy than other cooling methods, because the hot water that emerges from the system requires less chilling before it is reintroduced. And the use of hot-water outflow for heating nearby office buildings results in further energy savings.
Michel and his colleagues at IBM believe that flowing water could be used not just to extract heat, but also to provide power for the circuitry in the first place, by carrying dissolved ions that engage in electrochemical reactions at energy-harvesting electrodes. In effect, the coolant doubles as an electrolyte 'fuel'. The idea is not entirely new, says Yogendra Joshi, a mechanical engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. "It has been used for many years in thermal management of aircraft electronics", which are cooled by jet fuel, he says.
Delivering electrical power with an electrolyte flow is already a burgeoning technology. In a type of fuel cell known as a redox flow battery, for example, two electrolyte solutions are pumped into an electrochemical cell, where they are kept separate by a membrane that ions can flow through. Electrons travel between ions in the solutions in a process known as a reduction–oxidation (redox) reaction — but they are forced to do so through an external circuit, generating energy that can be tapped to provide electrical power.
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Redox-flow cells can be miniaturized using microfluidic technology, in which the fluid flows are confined to microscopic channels etched into a substrate such as silicon. At such small scales, the liquids can flow past each other without mixing, so there is no need for a membrane to separate them. With this simplification, the devices are easier and cheaper to make, and they are compatible with silicon-chip technology.
Michel and his colleagues have begun to develop microfluidic cells for powering microprocessors, using a redox process based on vanadium ions. The electrolyte is pumped along microchannels that are 100–200 micrometers wide and similar to those used to carry coolant flows around some chips. Power is harvested at electrodes spaced along the channel, then distributed to individual devices by conventional metal wiring. The researchers unveiled their preliminary results in August, at a meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry in Prague.
But they remain some way from actually powering circuits this way. At present, the power density of microfluidic redox-flow cells is less than 1 watt per square centimeter at 1 volt — two or three orders of magnitude too low to drive today's microprocessors. However, Michel believes that future processors will have significantly lower power requirements. And, he says, delivering power with microfluidic electrochemical cells should at least halve the power losses that occur with conventional metal wiring, which squanders around 50% of the electrical energy it carries as resistive heating.


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Every year I look forward to photographing the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin and this year was no different. I got up early this morning and looked out my bedroom window window to see what the weather was like and it appeared to be OK. Therefore, when I decided to leave to go to the press briefing I was more than surprised to discover that it was raining very heavy.
By the time I got to my destination it was actually snowing (really wet cold snow). Anyway, at the briefing we were introduced to Nicky Byrne. "One of Ireland's best loved and internationally celebrated pop-artists", Nicky Byrne, acted as Grand Marshal for this year's St. Patrick's Festival Parade. "A native of Dublin, Byrne was chosen by Festival organisers for his outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry".
After the briefing I decided to have breakfast at a Hungarian restaurant on Bolton Street (great value) instead of photographing the "People's Parade". At about 11:30 as the snow had ceased I decided to check out the media facilities provided by the organizers and much to my surprise there were very few spectators along the planned route.
The weather appears to have had an impact on the number of people who attended the event. I was located on a bus (an excellent platform for photographers) at the corner of Parnell Square and I was surprised to see that there were very few onlookers compared to previous years when it was almost impossible to find a good position from which to view the the parade.


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If Star Trek taught us one thing, it is that "ye cannae change the laws of physics". That is certainly how scientists generally seem to regard their various laws and constants. No sooner has someone discovered a new "law" than it acquires quasi-legal status, with violations implicitly prohibited. No sooner has someone defined a "constant" than it is assumed to be just that, never varying at different times or places.
And yet, who says so? Why should we assume that a particular mass always exerts the same gravity, or that an atom always has the same mass anyway? After all, one of the most revelatory theories of modern physics, special relativity, showed that the length of a centimetre and the duration of a second can change depending on how fast you are moving. And look at the recent excitement about experiments hinting (and then dismissing due to a faulty connection) that particles called neutrinos could travel faster than the speed of light.
There is no principle of physics that says physical laws or constants have to be the same everywhere and always. This could drive you a bit mad. How can you possibly do science if the rules keep changing? But if you are a scientist, you have to face up to that possibility – and you have a responsibility to check out if it is true.
Which brings us to the apparent Lewis Carroll absurdity of a new paper setting out to test if a constant central to quantum physics, called Planck's constant or h, is really as it says. The fact that it is, as far as we can tell – there does not seem much point in manufacturing suspense here – means that this is not likely to grab any headlines. It sounds a bit like proving that Paris has not moved to China.
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But this is an experiment that is significant not so much for what has been found as for the fact that it was done at all. After all, testing the constancy of a constant means going to extraordinary lengths in terms of precision measurements.
To test whether Planck's constant is really constant, Makan Mohageg and graduate student James Kentosh of California State University in Northridge turned to the same GPS systems that help drivers find their way home. GPS relies on the most accurate timing devices we currently possess: atomic clocks. These count the passage of time according to frequency of the radiation that atoms emit when their electrons jump between different energy levels.
Why go to all this bother? The point is that the researchers did not just pick on a random constant. Planck's constant is in effect the number that launched the field of quantum physics. In 1900 the German scientist Max Planck proposed h as a measure of the size of energy "packets", or quanta, into which light is divided. Planck said that a light quantum has an amount of energy equal to the frequency of the light multiplied by h. Planck introduced this "quantum" hypothesis of light as a mathematical trick to get his equations to work out. But Albert Einstein argued five years later that the trick must be taken literally: light really is chopped up into these discrete packets of energy.
Disturbance in the universe?
The reason why Kentosh and Mohageg asked whether h is really constant, however, is not just because it is a central number for modern physics, but because h also appears in the expression for another fundamental constant, called the fine-structure constant. This measures the strength of interactions between light and matter, or equivalently, how strong electrical and magnetic forces are. It can be expressed as a combination of three constants: the charge on an electron, the speed of light, and h.


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This situation reminds me of an old "sci-fi" book by Arkadij and Boris Strugacki, "The monday starts with saturday". It is basically an image of russian magotechnic laboratory, the scientists are basically mages, researching things like conjuration, and so on… Quite an idyllic book, but what I want to say, these scientists had a certain magical power, quite a great one. They avoided to misuse it for selfish purposes. For example, one young scientist summoned some wine bottles for a party, but he gave away some money after, like he would pay for them. Who often misused the magic in selfish ways, suffered from having a grey hairs growing from ears and was thrown out of the magotechnic research facility, the N.O.T.H.I.N.G.
So, we nowadays can download a lot of music without paying, and I'm glad it's not like in that fictional world, otherwise I couldn't plug the headphones in my ears, for them being so overgrown with the grey hairs. And I think it looks like Boris and Arkadij predicted the media copying dilemma.


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Polling at Birmingham gamePolling leaflets are being handed out at the Birmingham game.
The Club have confirmed that there will be no further consultation and no ballot by them until after 21May when a final decision is to be made. All rather irrelevant then... Volunteers are asked to meet by the Bobby Moore statue from 3pm where leaflets will be distributed. Whatever your view, if you believe fans should be balloted in advance of a decision to move, then please help us ballot those attending. WHUs View?
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Club have confirmed they won't ballot until they can legally show the fans the plans shocker.... Booooo
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Using that theory then Club have confirmed they won't ballot until the have received the keys to the stadium.... Booooo
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Dr. Toch is semi-retired from private practice of hospital-based radiology in the Los Angeles, CA area. He has taught at Columbia and Cornell Universities, as well as the University of California at Irvine and Los Angeles. He also serves as a mediator and as a temporary judge for the Los Angeles County Superior Court system.
Medical malpractice is a fact of our professional lives. Approximately 1 radiologist in 10 will be sued during any given year. This means that after 5 continuous years of practice, the probability that any given radiologist will not have been sued at least once is in the range of only 60%, and after 25 years of continuous practice the probability will have dropped to about 7%. 1
The effect upon the radiologist who is threatened with a lawsuit is significant. There is loss of time, loss of self-esteem, loss of money, and, potentially, loss of the right to practice for the following two reasons. 1) Malpractice insurers may cancel or refuse to renew the radiologist's malpractice insurance policy. This effectively eliminates a radiologist from hospital practice, since almost all hospital staffs now require proof of such insurance to maintain privileges. It would also be a serious disadvantage in private office practice and/or in finding a job. 2) Governmental regulatory agencies (e.g., state medical boards) may take action adverse to the radiologist's medical license. At the very least, if the matter results in a fairly clear-cut case of malpractice with a significant award of damages to the injured party, then the radiologist's malpractice insurance premiums are likely to rise.
Some measures can be taken to decrease the likelihood of the threat of a suit, of actually being sued, and of the suit's being successful if it is brought. It behooves every radiologist to acquire some knowledge of the techniques of malpractice risk reduction early in his/her career, and to establish habits and modes of practice that are suited to these techniques and to this end.
Medical malpractice is a form of legal action or procedure intended to provide a remedy, usually in the form of monetary compensation, to a plaintiff who has established that he or she was injured as the result of a misdeed arising from circumstances surrounding the provision of medical care. It may take a number of legal forms; e.g., tort, contract, or vicarious 1iability, often alleged in combination.
A tort is an act or an omission to act that causes harm or injury to another, and that violates a duty stated or implied in the law. Torts may be intentional or unintentional. Intentional torts are those in which the tortfeasor (the individual who has committed the tort upon another) is, or should be, aware of the wrong he is committing, and therefore does something intentionally that the law prohibits and that harms another. For example, battery is a nonconsensual touching of another (e.g., a punch; but not between prizefighters, who have obviously consented). Negligence is a tort that is unintentional but arises out of some act or failure to act that a reasonably prudent person would not have committed because of the probability that it might harm another. Most medical malpractice falls into the category of negligence.
A contract is an agreement between or among parties to provide each other with certain goods, services, guarantees, etc., usually based upon mutual promises. The contract confers duties upon the parties to perform with respect to the other parties in the manner specified in the contract (which is usually in writing, but can be merely oral in form). A breach of the contract occurs when a party (or an agent; that is, someone acting on behalf of that party) fails to perform what the duty binds the party to do (or possibly not do).
Note that the duty in tort arises out of law, and pertains to all other persons in the world. In a contract, the duty arises out of the privately agreed-upon contract among the parties and extends only to those parties to the contract and to certain other persons who may have certain specified relations to them, such as their agents.
Vicarious liability is the liability that arises when someone is harmed by the act or omission of a third party who is related through a legally recognized connection to the party who is vicariously liable. The most common such connection is called "master-servant," and the employer-employee relationship is the classic example of this. This leads to a doctrine called respondeat superior --the employer is responsible for the actions of employees while the employees are acting in the scope of their employment.
Vicarious liability tends to be the major source of malpractice suits involving hospitals and other healthcare-providing organizations. Since they are entities, rather than actual living persons, any harm is inflicted by one of their agents rather than by the entity itself.
Since a business relationship exists between a physician and a patient, there is generally found to be a contract between the physician and the patient. So many malpractice complaints will allege both contract and tort causes of action. Furthermore, since persons under the supervision of the physician (e.g., nurses, aides, orderlies, technical personnel, etc.) may be involved in the infliction of the damage, vicarious liability is also claimed frequently. For the radiologist, the doctrine of vicarious liability is important whenever technicians or other health-related personnel are charged with causing harm to patients while working under the direction of that radiologist.
The law uses the term elements of a tort to describe the basic requirements that must be met in order for a plaintiff to prevail against a defendant in a given action. If the plaintiff does not allege all of the necessary elements in the initial complaint (the first document filed with the court by the plaintiff), then the lawsuit is subject to dismissal without any showing of defense on the part of the defendant. In the case of a tort, which is the most common type of medical malpractice cause of action, there are four elements. These are: a duty owed to the plaintiff from the defendant; a breach of that duty; damage to the defendant; and the damage proximately caused by the breach of duty alleged.
The avoidance of malpractice may be seen as analogous to the avoidance of damage from unseasonable climate; namely, avoiding the elements.
Duty is practically impossible to eliminate, since simply taking on the patient (including the act of interpreting the patient's imaging examination) produces the requisite relationship for creating a duty. The duty that is thus acquired by the physician is to manage the patient within the standard level of care, and not to fall below that quality standard. For specialists, including radiologists, that standard is generally a nationwide one.
Breach of duty
Whether or not a physician has breached his duty to provide care within the standard level of care, and thus has fallen below that level, is a determination which usually requires the testimony of medical experts, since, in general, laymen are not considered qualified to render such testimony.
This has, coincidentally, created a relatively new and sometimes quite lucrative area of medicine: acting as an expert medical witness. Clearly, it is incumbent upon all radiologists to do the best work we are capable of doing consistently, and to maintain our skills as the newer modalities appear on the scene, to minimize our errors. If no error is made, then clearly there is no breach of duty. Nonetheless, studies show that errors in diagnosis simply do occur, as frequently as 30% of the time, even among competent radiologists. 1 This causes the application of the standard of care in many cases to fall within a gray area, with wide differences of opinion between experts testifying for both sides.
This is probably the single most important element. There are generally two components involved, the economic and the noneconomic. Economic damage consists of the cost of medical care resulting from the injury, the actual or projected loss in income to the injured party, and such other losses as are considered fairly readily susceptible to arithmetic calculation. Noneconomic damages, on the other hand, generally represent compensation for pain and suffering, which is obviously not calculated readily. By law in many states, noneconomic damages are limited to capped dollar amounts. Also, noneconomic damages may, by state law, be available only during the lifetime of the injured party.
This can make a malpractice suit brought by the heirs of an elderly, retired person, however egregious the circumstances of the case, unappealing to an attorney being paid on a contingent-fee basis (that is, the attorney's fee is a percentage of the amount settled for or won at trial). In short, since attorneys who are on contingency bring the great majority of malpractice suits, the estimate of the amount of damages becomes critical in the attorney's determination of whether or not to take the case. Clearly, in making this determination, the attorney considers the age, earning capacity, and prior health status of the injured party, and it appears that many lawsuits that would be otherwise highly meritorious are never filed because of the expectation of a small monetary recovery.
Proximate cause
Proximate cause is the term used in the law for a causal connection between the breach of duty and the damages sustained. It is composed of two parts: actual cause and legal cause. Actual cause is rather simply determined by the "but-for" test; that is, if the damage would not have been sustained had the breach not occurred, then the requirement of actual cause is met. For example, in the instance of a radiographic contrast reaction, if the damage sustained by the patient (e.g., permanent brain damage as a result of anaphylaxis) would not have occurred absent the injection of contrast to someone with a known history of dye intolerance, then actual cause is present.
However, the legal cause component assesses the legal connection of the breach to the resulting injury. If a superseding use (an unforeseeable intervening cause that becomes the proximate cause of the effect) arises, the initial breach may be considered remote, and the perpetrator of that breach may be absolved of liability for the injury to the plaintiff. Consider the same example of the patient's dye reaction, except that the dye reaction is treated promptly and successfully, and the patient is discharged from the radiology department in excellent condition, but not until 2 hours later than he would have otherwise been released. Assume also that, as a result, the patient misses the bus he would normally have taken home; he hails a cab, and that cab is involved in a serious accident in which the patient is injured. To be sure, had the patient not been injected and sustained the dye reaction, he presumably would have met the bus on time, and arrived home safely. Thus, "but for" the radiologist's breach of duty, the subsequent injury would not have occurred. However, the law is too practical to permit this kind of lawsuit to succeed.
Here the legal requirement of close and direct nexus between the claimed actual cause and the damage sustained by the plaintiff would not be satisfied. In this example, the cab driver's faulty driving led to the accident that caused the plaintiff's injuries; the dye reaction merely caused the plaintiff to miss the bus. In general, absent the intervention of an outside individual or force (such as the cab driver who caused the accident), actual cause is equivalent to proximate cause.
The major cause of malpractice suits against radiologists is failure to correctly interpret images, reportedly in 64% to 85% of suits (M. Campbell, SCPIE Co., personal communication, June 2001). What can radiologists do about this? It has been shown in a number of retrospective studies that errors are regularly made in the interpretation of radiographs. A commonly quoted incidence rate, based on hindsight studies, is that some 30% of subsequently discovered abnormalities could have been detected on earlier films, but were overlooked. 1 This suggests that it is not possible for humans to interpret radiographs flawlessly. Furthermore, there are two fundamentally different types of errors in radiological diagnosis. The first of these is the missed diagnosis, that is, where the radiological finding representing the pathology is not mentioned by the interpreting radiologist, and does not appear in his report at all. The second is the misdiagnosis--the abnormal finding is detected and noted by the radiologist but is misinterpreted as representing something other than what it ultimately is shown to actually have represented. For example, the mammogram finding thought to represent a benign lesion, such as a fibroadenoma, ultimately turns out to have represented a carcinoma.
Many missed diagnoses are not really missed at all but are noted in the mind of the radiologist as unusual, but probably insignificant, findings. For this reason they are not reported. When, in retrospect, the unreported finding is shown to have represented pathology, it is too late for the radiologist to testify that he saw it but did not think it was significant. Indeed, that testimony in itself would tend to prove that the lesion was indeed detectable in the original film. This would therefore contradict the defendant's expert witness, who would likely be trying to convince the jury that the lesion would not be seen by a radiologist practicing within the standard level of care.
The lesson here appears to be that unusual findings on a film should be carefully scrutinized before being disregarded. In other words, if it bothers you, look at it twice, and if it still bothers you, you might want to ask for additional views. If the finding is still present on the additional views and you still don't think it's pathology, it may be well to mention it in your report, along with a description of the thinking process that led you to the conclusion that the finding is insignificant. If the finding is particularly troublesome on the original views but absent on the additional views, you still may want to mention its presence on the initial film(s) in your report, along with the fact that you have obtained additional views that negate its significance. Radiologists are frequently criticized for hedging, but this may be an instance where discretion is the better part of valor.
With respect to misdiagnosis, this is one of the advantages of giving a differential diagnosis in your report. Nonradiologic colleagues may accuse you of hedging, but the fact that you included the correct diagnosis in your report, even if it was not your first choice, is likely to help your case if the need arises at some time in the future. A possible balance between avoiding hedging and attention to malpractice prophylaxis may be to mention the various less likely possibilities in the body of the report, thus alerting the clinician to any lurking dangers, while naming only the most likely diagnoses in the "Impression."
Other factors that must be taken into consideration in reducing diagnostic errors include such common causes as fatigue, too great a volume of work for the time allotted, and a host of psychological factors that may lead to diminished attention to the job at hand. Simply be aware of these dangers and avoid them as best you can.
In our litigious society, medical malpractice lawsuits are a way of life. Therefore, make yourself as aware of all aspects of the situation as possible if it appears you may be, or are being, sued. In the majority of instances there is a "target defendant" (or several target defendants) who is the real target of the plaintiff's attorney. Other defendants are named just to complete the picture and for certain legal requirements or advantages gained by the plaintiff's side.
In that regard, it is always a good idea to get an early feel for your position in a pending action. You should be able to determine quite early if you are a target defendant or merely supernumerary (your attorney will most likely tell you). If you are not a target defendant, then try to relax and just follow the case as it unfolds. If you are a target defendant, then attempt to learn as much as you can about the case, as you may be able to assist your attorney in your defense. Your attorney is most likely a skilled professional and an expert in the law but, with rare exceptions, is not a physician. Even though he or she will have the assistance of a team of expert consultants and witnesses, you probably know more about your case than anyone else does, and therefore you may be able to point out critical factors that can be helpful to your case. Most experienced trial attorneys welcome medical input from their clients. Of course, this varies from individual to individual, and you must use your intuition and knowledge of human psychology to guide you in this. A good working relationship with your defense attorney is highly desirable and should be pursued.
Most medical malpractice actions end in results favorable to the defendant physician. It is estimated that up to 80% of the malpractice lawsuits that come to trial end in verdicts favoring the defendant. Of course, this excludes those cases that had been settled prior to trial, which often include the most obvious cases of clear malpractice.
Finally, have faith in the legal system. While, invariably, errors are made, by and large it is the feeling of those who deal regularly with these matters that justice does tend to be served, and right does tend to prevail in the majority of instances. AR
This article is adapted from a lecture Dr. Toch gave to radiology residents at the University of California at Irvine.
Individual state laws vary considerably, and it is therefore desirable to contact local sources for information regarding specific malpractice risk avoidance. One good resource for this is medical malpractice insurance companies. These companies often sponsor risk prevention teams, some of which are available to lecture to groups such as medical staffs and radiological societies. The reader is cautioned that this paper is intended only as a generalized informational summary, and portions of it may be inapplicable in some jurisdictions and/or in specialized circumstances.


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Jurgen Klinsmann extends contract with U.S. Soccer by four years.
Klinsmann now contracted thru 2018 as USMNT coach & becomes technical director as well. Did tough WC draw make extension happen earlier?
Klinsmann wanted an extension before the WC. Wanted that vote of confidence. Huge commitment from USSF. Let the revolution continue.
What does Klinsmann deal mean for @ussoccer? There's a firm vision in place, Interesting to see what happens. Me? I think it's GOOD news
Scolari: We will win the WC... I am not afraid to say that because that is the message I want my players to understand."
Nothing like brutal confidence, eh. Scolari also revealed the date of his final squad announcement:
Luiz Felipe Scolari has told the press that on the 6th of May, he will reveal his 23-man squad for the 2014 World Cup!!
England face Italy in the jungle in their first Group D game at the 2014 World Cup. The venue is far from finished, as these photos show:
The BBC and ITV have confirmed the split of live matches for next summer's FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
ITV will show the opening match of the tournament between hosts Brazil and Croatia on 12 June, while the BBC start with Spain v Holland, a repeat of the 2010 World Cup final on 13 June.
The BBC will show England's first Group D match against Italy. ITV will then show England's next two games, against Uruguay and Costa Rica.
The construction of new venues for the 2014 World Cup hasn't been without controversy and incident, but in Natal on the north-east coast of Brazil, a beautiful new stadium is taking shape, as these photos show:
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For over thirty years, NARAL Pro-Choice America has been the political arm of the pro-choice movement and a strong advocate of reproductive freedom and choice. NARAL Pro-Choice America's mission is to protect and preserve the right to choose while promoting policies and programs that improve women's health and make abortion less necessary. NARAL Pro-Choice America works to educate Americans and officeholders about reproductive rights and health issues and elect pro-choice candidates at all levels of government. The NARAL ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization's preferred position.
Faith2Action.org is "the nation's largest network of pro-family groups." They provide election resources for each state, including Voter Guides and Congressional Scorecards excerpted here. The Faith2Action survey summarizes candidate stances on the following topic: 'Giving legal protection to unborn children '
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Mary Bernard: Highs and Lows
On a Bill Hybels DVD, he describes holding dinners for friends where they discuss their "high and low" over the past week. In the States, we often did this with our college/career-age Bible study group. It's an excellent way to get a snap shot of the important things going on in someone's life. I've been doing this with my Ethiopian friends lately to try to get more of a feel for what their day to day lives look like. Life tends to be very high and very low here. Not much just coasting along even keel, as we found often to be the case in the US. Someone we know lost his wife and unborn child a few days ago after they were run over by a semi truck on the road. Another close friend lost her brother-in-law suddenly to some unknown illness a few weeks ago, just a few months after losing a sister to a similar sudden illness. Death is a very real and constant part of life to most of our Ethiopian friends.
The thing about asking someone their high and low over the past week is you have to be ready to share your own. My own high for this past week was taking the graduating CRNA (nurse anesthetists) class out to a congratulatory lunch. I have been working closely with them for the past nine months and have seen them grow and learn. I couldn't be prouder of what they have accomplished. Most of them will go back hundreds of miles to their home hospitals to practice and share what they have learned. I will likely never see them again, but I feel very privileged to have been a part of their lives for a time.
My low for the week was saying goodbye to Azemeraw – the autistic patient at CURE that was abandoned by his parents. He went to the Mother Theresa Charity. Please keep him in your prayers. He still has some superficial open wounds on his legs and, more than that, a wounded heart after being left by his family.
Psalm 147:3-5 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit.


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Comment: New ideas get adopted when the old guard dies (Score 1) 625
If you could double the active lifespan of a (sane, healthy) individual, you'd get twice the amount of work for the same amount of high-school and college man-years. It's simple economy of scale.
New ideas are usually adopted once the old people with the old ideas dies . Classic example is the theory of relativity. There were brilliant physicist of their time who went to their graves refuting Einstein's theory because they had invested too much of their time and effort in the status quo. Furthermore, acceptance of the theory of relativity would have meant their work was invalid.


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The Lewis-Clark State College men's and women's tennis teams have made attending the NAIA National Tournament each May a regular stop each season. The Warrior women have qualified for nationals 14 straight years and 17 overall, while the men's team has made 11 straight trips and 20 overall.
This season, the NAIA has changed its national qualifying plan and in the process, made it much tougher for the Warriors.
In the past, the NAIA has grouped LCSC, College of Idaho and Southern Oregon together because they are the only three NAIA in the Pacific Northwest with tennis programs. Either the winner of head-to-head matches or the highest ranked team in the final NAIA poll qualified for nationals. Because LCSC always dominated the region and ranked in the NAIA Top 25 in both men's and women's play, the Warriors annually qualified.
However, after last season, Southern Oregon decided to discontinue tennis, which caused the NAIA to force College of Idaho and LCSC to join up with two teams from the Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference, three teams from the Red River Athletic Conference, and four teams from the Sooner Athletic Conference for national qualification purposes. Those 11 teams will now compete for one automatic bid to the national tournament through a two-day bracket tournament on April 19-20 in Oklahoma City.
The national tournament features 24 teams, of which 14 are automatic qualifiers and another berth goes to a host team. That leaves only nine at-large berths, which are awarded to the top nine teams in the final NAIA poll that did not earn an automatic berth. In the past, that meant almost all at-large berths went schools from California and the South, which dominate the NAIA polls.
In the new grouping for the LCSC men, who were ranked 18th a year ago in the final NAIA poll, they must compete with seventh-ranked Oklahoma Christian and 18th ranked Oklahoma Baptist for the automatic berth, while the LCSC women, who were ranked No. 18 at the end of last season, have No. 8 Oklahoma Christian, No. 13 Southern Nazarene and No. 15 Oklahoma Baptist.
It also means it will be questionable if either Warrior team can qualify for the national tournament if they don't finish first or second in the tournament at Oklahoma City. Although LCSC regularly advances to the second round of nationals, it never has that impressive of a season record because it plays so many NCAA schools and also against a number of the top-ranked NAIA teams from California.
This season, the Warrior women play six NCAA Division I teams, while the men's squad has five. Both open their seasons against such schools as the women begin on Jan. 21 at Washington State University, while the men's team opens Jan. 22 against the University of Idaho in Spokane.
Here's a breakdown of the two Warrior squads
This is a relatively young and inexperienced squad as far as college matches go. The Warriors have 14 players on the roster, but 10 are either sophomores or freshmen. Six players are also new to the program and two of the newcomers will redshirt this season.
"We have a young group of players who are eager to learn," Warrior coach Kai Fong said. "It will take a little while to get everyone settled into their roles."
It will also take Fong a little time to see what exactly he has. Of the six newcomers, three enrolled at LCSC for the start of the spring semester, meaning they will have only been with the team for two weeks when the Warriors open the season with four straight matches against NCAA D-I teams in WSU, Idaho, Seattle University, and Eastern Washington.
The Warriors do have some experience back with five players who saw quite a bit of varsity action a year ago. Ciara Schultz, from Yakima, Wash., and Chelsea Gay of The Dalles, Ore., are the lone seniors on the team, while Barb Sneckner, from Bend, Ore., is the lone junior with much experience. Sophomores Dorothy Chong of Malaysia and Sammie Teigen of University Place, Wash., round out the players with varsity experience.
Chong played No. 2 singles at the national tournament last season, while Schultz was at No. 3. Sneckner and Teigen were at Nos. 5 and 6, respectively. Gay was strictly a doubles player at nationals.
"It's pretty exciting because we have a lot of players who have improved over the last year," Fong said. "Our younger players have started to see that they can compete. We our using our first four D-I school matches as practice. Good practice. But we are not so fearful of the stronger competition. We realize our focus is not that we are playing WSU, but playing tennis at our level and being consistent. If we can do that, it will help us compete at the NAIA level."
Among the newcomers who could make an immediate impact are Dominika Jasova of Slovakia and Florencia Martina of Indonesia.
Fong says with the larger roster, he will likely try a number of lineup combinations to give the players experience.
"Our team has not enjoyed decent records in the last few years and this year will not be any different given the competition level we face," Fong says. Our goal is to improve, be as competitive as we can, and to gel as a team. Gelling as a team is one of the biggest challenges in tennis as we are working to transition players who are accustomed to an individual sport into functioning collectively as a team.
"A win by the sixth-ranked position player has the same value as a win by the best player on the team at the No. 1 position. Everyone has to learn a new role."
A highlight for the women's team this season is again playing the University of Portland. The two programs have not met since 1995.
The men's roster has 10 players and although the team has only one senior in Oliver Stone Sindayigaya, the team is relatively experienced. Five players return who competed at the NAIA national tournament a year ago, including No. 1 singles player Ivan Krijanto, a sophomore from Indonesia.
The Warriors also return Robert Benjamin, a junior from New Caledonia, who played at No. 3 singles a year ago, while Sindayigaya was at No. 4, and Cesar Uauy, a junior from Chile, was at No. 5. Tyler Oram, a junior from Boise, played doubles at nationals last season.
Also returning are sophomores Jeff Lowdnes and Lincoln Gay, while three freshmen, all from Europe, round out the roster. They are Viktor Svoboda from the Czech Republic, Anders Tischer of Germany, and Nicolas Tweedie of Spain.
"We have a pretty experienced group coming back and we should be pretty strong," Fong said. "The three players we recruited are going to make the lineup or at least be on the traveling team. They will make an impact and as a coach, you always like to see that. It helps with the depth of this team."
As with the women, Fong expects to tinker with the lineup, which he knows does cost the players some varsity time on the courts, but he does this to foster and develop team unity with the players.
"We need to instill team values in each player," Fong said. "The goals are to be consistent competitors in practice and in matches, to outwork the opponents and to develop a solid united group of players with varied/diverse backgrounds."
Fong said another goal with the men's team is consistency.
"What I have stressed to them is we need to be consistent performers," Fong said. "We want to be playing at a certain level and doing it consistently. I don't want peaks and valley. I don't want to see us peak early. We just want to play well consistently and continue to improve."
The men also face a challenging schedule this season, but the program has always been able to be fairly competitive against the NCAA schools. Last season, LCSC defeated Whitworth twice, Montana State-Billings three times, and Seattle University. It also competed well against Montana State-Bozeman and Weber State out of the Big Sky Conference.
"We have a very tough schedule, which is why we need to be consistent," Fong said. "It's going to be a challenge."
Fong will be assisted by long-time volunteer coach Jeanne Poxleitner, as well as volunteer coaches/managers Tim Stone, Alyson Peck, and Megan Smedley.
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