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...really get enough time with patients. I don't know that I'm against the limitation on residents' work hours. I do think it's very likely that residents will make fewer mistakes if they're not tired. But the way residents now learn medicine was developed by Sir William Osler at the beginning of the 20th century. It was great back then. Doctors lived in the hospital; that's why they're called residents. Patients also resided in the hospital sometimes for weeks at a time. So everybody got a chance to see interesting patients, interesting pathology. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Doctor Behind House | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...MigrationWatch, an organization concerned with both legal and illegal immigration to the U.K., welcomes the new plan. "This is a small, crowded island," says chairman Sir Andrew Green. "In a normally functioning economy there is not a fixed number of jobs, so it's not the case that one immigrant takes one British job. However, there is some effect of the kind as the rate of employment is falling very fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Citizenship: Points Off for Protest? | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

...case has divided the Jewish community, with some questioning its neutrality. "This is the great con," says Geoffrey Alderman, an expert on Anglo-Jewry at the University of Buckingham. Alderman points out that the board is bound by its constitution to defer to its most senior ecclesiastical authority, Sir Jonathan Sacks, on matters of religion - and Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the U.K.'s mainstream synagogues, is head of the United Synagogue, which has already spent $225,000 helping JFS defend its case. (Read "Avigdor Lieberman: Politically Incorrect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.K.'s Jewish-School Ruling: Who Decides Who Is a Jew? | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...which we all aspire. But I'm not sure the solution is to invite Dignitas to open a clinic down the street from every hospital. Advances in palliative care mean that those last years of life do not have to be a moral, medical and financial nightmare. I respect Sir Edward's right to make what his manager called a "typically brave and courageous" choice. I just wish he'd had better choices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Too Far with Assisted Suicide? | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...against these short-term military needs lie the questions of how long Britain must commit its troops to succeed in Afghanistan and what success will look like in a country rife with corruption and lawlessness. The head of the British army, Sir Richard Dannatt, has said before that the country should be committed to Afghanistan for the "long haul." On Sunday, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Britain's ambassador to Washington, put the time frame as "decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Soul-Searching Over Its Role in Afghanistan | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

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