Why do accidents happen? • The vast majority of accidents can be avoided. • One of the best ways to avoid them is to always be safety conscious. • These are some of the reasons why accidents occur: – carelessness – lack of training – not paying attention to what you’re doing – having a “know-it-all” attitude – taking shortcuts – being overtired – being in too much of a hurry – letting stress or other emotions interfere with your job • Most accidents can be prevented if you treat safety as an important responsibility.
Adequate financing of our growing medical schools at a time when the nation is in fiscal turmoil is probably not possible. This is one aspect of the dangerous crisis we have reached in medical education. The other aspect is even more fundamental; it has to do with the educational philosophy on which our projections of fiscal need are based. It is with this feature that I propose to deal. Many groups, within the past year, have come up with estimates of the monetary amounts we now need to grow and develop. About all that these estimates have in common is that they are large—up to $400 million annually. These efforts are of value chiefly in the emphases they place. It is probably not very useful at this time to attempt to deal with detailed breakdowns of the financial aspects of the estimates. The crisis might be nothing more than
It is generally recognized that the term "celiac syndrome" includes several pediatric disease entities which give rise to malnutrition, abnormal stools with steatorrhea, and multiple vitamin deficiencies. Of these various disorders the most important are idiopathic celiac disease and cystic fibrosis of the pancreas. Celiac disease in children has become increasingly rare in this country in the last few years because of better knowledge of nutritional requirements and the advent of antibiotic agents, which prevent the chronic infections that used to act as trigger mechanisms in initiating the clinical manifestations. In contrast, because of the introduction of effective antibacterial drugs and better dietary control, the life span of patients with cystic fibrosis has increased greatly. In former years these patients died in infancy or early childhood of bronchopneumonia or occasionally of severe malnutrition. At the present time, fibrocystic patients are observed with increasing frequency, not only in the pediatric age
