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Doctors can use low-dose CT screening to detect lung cancer in early stages before symptoms occur.

" a post on how you can construct a disclaimer for your medical blog or podcast. This can be an important part of your site and can provide some limited protection against legal issues. "

" Groundbreaking research has pointed to "grit" as a better predictor of success than IQ, while psychologists have admonished against the dangers of slipping into autopilot in the quest for skill improvement."

"Music can function as a metaphor for medical practice. We can think of the consultation as performance art,4 which may just make me more nervous at work. What better description of general practice than a virtuoso struggle to perform near impossible feats against the backdrop of physical limitations to produce something beautiful and moving?"

How could this impact medical education?

Whereas present theories of transformative learning tend to focus on the rational and reflective actor, in this article it is suggested that spontaneous action may play a decisive role in transformative learning too. In the spontaneity of action, novelty finds its way into life, gains momentum, is respected by others and reflected by the actor. Such transformation processes are investigated both with the means of theoretical reflection and of empirical inquiry. Based on nine narrative interviews typical phases of transformative learning processes are identified. Owing to the comparative nature of the study, it was also possible to develop an age-related typology that overlaps certain phases of the transformation process. These empirical findings constitute the background against which the nexus of spontaneous action and transformative learning is reflected theoretically. Theories drawn upon include John Dewey's Pragmatism and George Herbert Mead's Social Pragmatism. Both scholars provide rich theoretical concepts for reflecting on the nature of that what so often eludes from the control of both educators and learners: the spontaneity of the beginning.

Read how this young woman has battled against Crohn's disease.

" Here, our task is to take a hard look at the second practice, the use of letters or numbers as evaluative summaries of how well students have done, regardless of the method used to arrive at those judgments."