"Take a look at this!". Video annotation as a means to foster evidence-based and reflective external and self-given feedback: A preliminary study in operati on room technician training.

Receiving and giving oneself formative feedback is essential to professionals' development of reflective attitudes towards their practices. In the healthcare professions, debriefing sessions are often used to provide feedback. Such sessions often incorporate videos to support the debriefing process.

[Sport's medicalization].

Medicalization (abuse of sport drinks, supplements and drugs) involves more and more of the sport world, casting doubt on the credibility of results. causes and responsibilities are individuated. Characteristics of two commonly used supplements (creatine, branched-chain amino acids) are analyzed in order to show risks and ambiguities for athletes and the way to come out of it.

[Bile peritonitis: a case report and a review of literature about post-cholecystectomy damages].

A laparoscopic cholecystectomy in cirrhosis was complicated by bile ascites and evolved in bile peritonitis. Starting from the differential diagnosis problem between ascitic decompensation and bile-peritonitis caused by a biliary tree damage, we reviewed the literature about post-cholecystectomy damages suggesting a flow chart about this topic.

[Blood doping: 2].

Blood Doping has recently obtained a large diffusion between professional and nonprofessional athletes, in particular for endurance sports it has almost become a necessary way to warrant best performance. Seven years after the publication of our article "Blood Doping", this second installment was born to emphasize the way the biomedical research supplies (often unintentionally) new drugs and new technology to improve athletic performance and, on the other hand, to underline the antidoping strategies.

[Rational use of the glycemic stick in hospitals].

For best management of the diabetic patient and the cost-benefit relationship of bedside blood glucose monitoring use in hospital, we suggest an acting algorithm based on literature directions and on the clinical experience of an Internal Medicine Department.

[Are the integrators and supplements useful in sports?].

The continued controversy regarding doping in Italian soccer turns the discussion to the use of food integration in sports. In Italy, there is only the word "integrator" to name many products so different regarding biological features and indication usage. We think it is useful, first of all, to talk about the meaning of integration, and then to introduce the differences between nutritional ergogenic aids and supplements and, finally, to think through relationship between nutrition and athletic performance.

[Aids, physicians, Catholic Church].

The latest AIDS' congress (Barcelona) reminded the world this dramatic situation. The shown data are remarkable: 5 million people of new infected in 2001, 68 million people could die in the next 20 years because of AIDS and the biggest part of them is living in the South of the world. There are two different kind of AIDS: the AIDS of rich people (2% of infected ones), who can reach the modern therapies that changed the course of the disease now curable out of hospital, and the AIDS of poor ones, without therapies and future.