Brit J Hosp Med
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This article reports a study evaluating the sources and availability of career advice available to students in UK medical schools in order to ascertain the need for an enhanced role for careers information in undergraduate curricula.
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Over the last 20 years, there has been a large increase in the proportion of caesarean sections (Brown and Russell, 1995) which are performed under regional rather than general anaesthesia. A bilateral sensory block from the T4 dermatome (nipple level) to the sacral nerve roots (perineum) is necessary.
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Biography Historical Article
Harvey Cushing: a founding father of neurosurgery.
Harvey Cushing died 70 years ago, on 7 October, 1939, in his 71st year, of a myocardial infarction. He founded a school of neurosurgery whose disciples spread throughout the world, introduced the meticulous documentation of the clinical and pathological details of cerebral tumours, developed techniques of operative surgery which are now standard practice, has an endocrine disease which bears his name and even produced one of the best known medical biographies, the two-volume Life of Sir William Osler, which won the Pulitzer Prize for 1926.