September 2019

An elderly man swimming

Bierce criteria: drugs that are not recommended for elderly patients

A quarter of a century ago, Dr. Mark Beers’ research team published the first list of drugs to avoid in elderly patients. The list was subsequently called the Beers Criteria. Drugs Rationale and recommendations Non-selective cyclooxygenase NSAIDs for oral use Increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding or peptic ulcer disease in high-risk groups. Use of a

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Motivation Theory X

Motivation X, Y, Z: how to get people to work?

Incentivizing with threats and money Theory “X” is based on pessimistic expectations of the average employee: he shirks work at the slightest opportunity, avoids responsibility, does not take initiative, does not like additional obligations and works only for money. In this model, any average employee is always less intelligent and more lazy than his manager,

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Peregrine's syndrome

Peregrine’s syndrome

Verdict overturned Since the 1960s of the last century, specialized scientific literature began to describe cases of Peregrin’s syndrome – disappearance of histologically confirmed cancer in patients who were treated inappropriately or did not undergo any antitumor therapy at all. Their cancer regression was complete (no primary focus of the disease and metastases) or partial

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