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Damasio, who serves as Van Allen professor at the University of Iown Medical Center and an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute in San Diego, has written two other books on the subject of emotion, Descartes’s Error and The Feeling of What Happens...
...downward arrow and the sentiment “that’s just loco,” but there is no question regarding its offensive nature. The explanations we have been given are not up to par, and do not absolve the Crimson of guilt in this error. This statement ridicules the Latino community’s efforts to gain personal as well as campus-wide recognition. It is a grave insult to see the assiduous efforts being devoted to La Vida, and its future usefulness as a student resource, publicly and immaturely mocked. In contrast to this insult...
...concerns anyone who checks into the hospital for a procedure. The first question everyone's asking is: how could this have happened - especially at such an esteemed hospital? Secondly, what can patients do when they enter the hospital to ensure that overworked medical staff doesn?t make a deadly error...
...Duke spokesman Richard Puff says the medical center accepts full responsibility for the "tragic" mistake and has already implemented new safety procedures - including a triple-layer system to check blood type matching - to ensure this kind of error will never happen again. The hospital, which performed its first organ transplant in 1965 and now performs the most lung transplants in the country, says there has never been a donor mix-up at the facility before. According to Puff, the investigation is ongoing, and there is no word when the hospital will release new findings on the cause of the error...
...When that cause is identified, says Dr. Gerard Magill, Executive Director of the Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University, it will most likely point to problems in the system - not to doctors with malicious intent. "Virtually every case of medical error can be traced back to a systematic issue," he says. "They're dealing with overloaded staff, too many patients, too much going on. That's a serious problem in almost every American hospital, and it needs to be addressed...