Relating Ambient Heat to Site Clinic Visits for Heat-Related Symptoms among Four Middle Eastern Aluminium Smelters.

Objective: Describe the relation between clinic visits for symptoms of heat-related illness (Heat-Related Visits, HRV) and ambient Heat Index among aluminium smelters in the Arab Gulf States.

Methods: Four smelters provided HRV data. Meteorological data from nearby airports provided data for Heat Index (HI).

Teletherapy Ethics.

This manuscript focuses on regret as a significant moral experience in surgical professionalization. It distinguishes between constructive regret, which encourages self-reflection and growth, and destructive regret, which can lead to emotional withdrawal and impaired decision-making. This article also offers recommendations for how both colleagues and organizations should respond to each type of regret, especially regret over poor outcomes, to nourish professional formation.

COVID-19 in 2024.

This manuscript focuses on regret as a significant moral experience in surgical professionalization. It distinguishes between constructive regret, which encourages self-reflection and growth, and destructive regret, which can lead to emotional withdrawal and impaired decision-making. This article also offers recommendations for how both colleagues and organizations should respond to each type of regret, especially regret over poor outcomes, to nourish professional formation.

Prevalence of chronic pain and its risk factors until one year after intensive care unit discharge. A single-center prospective observational study.

Purpose: To investigate the prevalence and risk factors for long-term pain following an ICU stay.

Materials And Methods: This prospective, single-center study included patients who stayed in the ICU for ≥3 days and could complete a questionnaire. The primary aim was to assess chronic pain incidence at 3 months and up to 1 year post-discharge and identify associated risk factors.

Performing Clarity, Sincerity, and Endurance.

Health beliefs about one's own future should be clearly expressed, sincere, and enduring to be taken seriously by clinicians when assessing risks and benefits in key health decisions. This cartoon considers how clinicians' expressions of doubt about those beliefs can undermine patient-clinician relationships and a patient's epistemic authority.