July

In May of this year the government and the physicians of British Columbia engaged in a very nasty altercation to try to settle the fee dispute for the province’s doctors. It was obvious that this compensation package—as well as that of the nurses, the HEU, and health care spending in general—threatened one day to engulf the whole provincial budget.

This is part 2 of two on the enigma of whiplash, which in the meantime is still an enigma.

Difficult and often dramatized, the subject of medical error was once again in the spotlight thanks to the 2000 report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System from the US Institute of Medicine.

The international literature on medical error is extensive. A recent search of the MEDLINE database found that 6000 of 35 000 journal articles published in the past 5 years were focused on this topic.

Lithuania

Mild traumatic head injury, with or without direct impact to the head, is a possible consequence of an acceleration-deceleration mechanism of injury (whiplash).[1] Patients may present without a history of significant loss of consciousness and may not demonstrate any short-duration superficial loss of consciousness.