Elsevier isn't happy 'cause they've made lotsa money sucking at the academic tit.
I hope that this will nudge more medical journals in the direction of freely available. The Canadian Medical Association Journal (http://www.cmaj.ca/) is currently the only major open access journal (CMAJ March 1, 2005; 172 (5).) (http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/172/5/621). The British Medical Journal experimented with the idea for a while but decided to close up again... perhaps they'll now reconsider.
If you read the CMAJ article above... you'll know that Nature Publishing Group is okay with authors making the final version of their articles available six months post-publication. Things are moving in the right direction.:)
"...an editorial in the journal Science describes schizophrenia as the worst disease affecting mankind (not excepting AIDS)"
Schizophrenia is a terrible disease--it must be devastating. I hope that your parents don't feel they did something wrong in raising her... that's an old misconception.
A detailed peer-reviewed description by a medical professional is
here.
The adrenal is an organ. It is distinct from the kidney and important--with out it you're dead... unlike the spleen.
The difference between the surgeries is really the spleen... and one kidney. The Germans probably skipped the spleen 'cause you can live very happily without it. The kidney is a similar deal... one kidney is enough to live off no-problemo; they probably sent the extra kidney to someone else.
In other words:
US:
- 1 extra kidney (not really needed)
- 1 extra spleen (not really needed)
Germany:
- (not discussed but more than likely) one additional happy former tranplant waitlistee with a new kidney
Dr Tzakis said: "To my knowledge this is the first attempt at eight organs."
Dr Tzakis should get his facts straight... as should the BBC.
German surgeons in Berlin did eight organs last year. The Dr can pat himself on the back--it is no small feat... but it has already been done. It is a non-story.
I tend to think CS is better as a hobby... and especially so if you still want to see patients.
There are plenty of opportunities and interesting projects out there if you want to do some technical work... and you don't even have any formal training to get involved and make a contribution:
OSCAR McMaster GPLed software for the family practice. I went to one of their workshops...
led by a engineer/MD from my alma mater.:-) Based on MySQL, Tomcat & Java.
GnuMed My personal favourite. wxPython & PostgreSQL based. Led by an engineer/MD.
Slashdot Mirror
There is other medical FOSS out there - GnuMed http://www.gnumed.org/ and OSCAR McMaster http://www.oscarhome.org/ (or http://www.goemr.com/ if you're in the USA) are two that come to mind off the top of my head.
_ _82-3-202.pdf
Debian-med has a fairly big list -- http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/
Euspirit http://www.euspirit.org/ had a huge list... but the site seems to have evaporated.
I wrote a lengthy article about that FOSS in medicine-- it can be found here: http://www.utmj.org/issues/82.3/Technology_Review
Elsevier isn't happy 'cause they've made lotsa money sucking at the academic tit.
:)
I hope that this will nudge more medical journals in the direction of freely available. The Canadian Medical Association Journal (http://www.cmaj.ca/) is currently the only major open access journal (CMAJ March 1, 2005; 172 (5).) (http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/172/5/621). The British Medical Journal experimented with the idea for a while but decided to close up again... perhaps they'll now reconsider.
If you read the CMAJ article above... you'll know that Nature Publishing Group is okay with authors making the final version of their articles available six months post-publication. Things are moving in the right direction.
"...an editorial in the journal Science describes schizophrenia as the worst disease affecting mankind (not excepting AIDS)"
Schizophrenia is a terrible disease--it must be devastating. I hope that your parents don't feel they did something wrong in raising her... that's an old misconception.
A detailed peer-reviewed description by a medical professional is here.
The adrenal is an organ. It is distinct from the kidney and important--with out it you're dead... unlike the spleen.
The difference between the surgeries is really the spleen... and one kidney. The Germans probably skipped the spleen 'cause you can live very happily without it. The kidney is a similar deal... one kidney is enough to live off no-problemo; they probably sent the extra kidney to someone else.
In other words:
US:
- 1 extra kidney (not really needed)
- 1 extra spleen (not really needed)
Germany:
- (not discussed but more than likely) one additional happy former tranplant waitlistee with a new kidney
Dr Tzakis said: "To my knowledge this is the first attempt at eight organs."
Dr Tzakis should get his facts straight... as should the BBC.
German surgeons in Berlin did eight organs last year. The Dr can pat himself on the back--it is no small feat... but it has already been done. It is a non-story.
I tend to think CS is better as a hobby... and especially so if you still want to see patients.
:-) Based on MySQL, Tomcat & Java.
There are plenty of opportunities and interesting projects out there if you want to do some technical work... and you don't even have any formal training to get involved and make a contribution:
OSCAR McMaster
GPLed software for the family practice. I went to one of their workshops... led by a engineer/MD from my alma mater.
GnuMed
My personal favourite. wxPython & PostgreSQL based. Led by an engineer/MD.
Tk Family Practice
The creator has an amazing collection of free eMedicine links.
The future of eMedicine is going to look like this - picture of Dr Tux. The British Medical Journal thinks so -- Medical software's free future
If you want to do engineering, I'd go the biomedical engineering route--that is where I'm coming from... and will continue to do some work.