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R Singleton

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Ask the doctor: answers may surprise you.

In summary, physicians tend to base their final decision not only on the combination and culmination of all of the information that they gain about the location and the practice opportunity, but it seems that the final decision is mainly based on a trust factor. This trust factor lies in the belief that comments the administrator may have made while walking the halls with the candidate were true. Many physicians comment that they decide to go to one location over the other when both are equally as impressive in terms of quality of life and quality of practice style, because they trusted and had a higher comfort level and established a rapport more quickly with one administration or medical staff over another.

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Palliative home care program for terminally ill children.

A study conducted for the Dr. Charles A. Janeway Child Health Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland, determined that pediatric oncology patients and their families had needs that were not being met by the existing program of care. The article describes those needs, and then outlines the multidisciplinary palliative home care program that was established by the health centre to address them. The program's procedures of operation and follow-up, and the evaluation process are discussed.

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The challenge of ongoing Haemophilus influenzae type B carriage and transmission in Alaska.

Cases of invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in Alaskan children quickly dropped 10-fold after widespread vaccination with a conjugate vaccine (PRP-OMP) began in 1991. However, reemergence of invasive disease in 1996-97 soon followed a change to a combination diphtheria-tetanus toxoid-pertussis/H. influenzae type b vaccine which incorporates a different conjugate vaccine (HbOC). Previously unrecognized persistence of H. influenzae type b carriage in rural Alaska, coupled with characteristics of the immune response to HbOC, are the likely explanations for disease reemergence. The current vaccine recommendation--PRP-OMP for the first dose, followed by HbOC to complete the vaccination series--appears to protect Alaskan infants even in the face of continuing carriage and transmission. Successful control of invasive H. influenzae type b disease in Alaskan children will require not only appropriate immunization, but also continuing surveillance for both disease and carriage, identification of factors associated with carriage, and investigation into the feasibility of using vaccination plus antimicrobial drugs to eliminate this pathogen.

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Robert Earle Buchanan: an unappreciated scientist.

Robert Earle Buchanan (1883-1973), 19th President of the Society of American Bacteriologists (later American Society for Microbiology), was one of the more important 20th century microbiologists. He was a dominant force in creating the field of bacterial systematics and made significant contributions to microbial physiology. He also numbered a number of influential textbooks. A reasonable conclusion is that Buchanan was a major cultivator of modern microbiology. To justify that assertion, I have four major objectives in this essay: i) a brief biographical review of Buchanan's early life; ii) a brief review of his scientific contributions, many of which go beyond his recognized contributions to bacterial systematics; iii) Buchanan was an important academic administrator who created the microbiology program and fostered a strong graduate education program at Iowa State, iv)finally, I close the essay with a focus on Buchanan's "moral character."

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