A commentary by a retired professor of medicine and a director of B.C. Health Care Matters. Provision of safe births and adequate primary care are widely accepted minimum standards in most developed ...

Normally, a plane moves along three rotational axes. “Inertia coupling” takes place when the plane inadvertently moves on two ...

A recent front-page article in the New York Times conveyed grim news about patient safety. The first large-scale study of hospital safety in a decade concluded that care has not gotten significantly ...

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In a recent column I gave color coding ban on cars as an example of how inertia prevents us from changing a rule that has outlived its usefulness. I write hoping that someone somewhere who has the ...

It’s harder to stop something after you’ve started it because whatever activity you’ve engaged in now has momentum going for it. Conversely, it’s harder to start something before you make the ...

The case of a pulsating-load testing machine shows how to ballpark qualities that are important for deploying electric motors. Crankshafts in running internal-combustion engines pulsate as well as ...