Professionals demand

The overshadowing professional demands at each step of the process are honesty, accuracy and fairness. The mass communication demands are clarity, readability and style. These demands for delivering information to the public need not conflict, but in covering science and the complexities of risk, they often do. The dilemma is real but can hopefully be resolved. 

Newly graduated chemists, especially these with M.S. degrees, accustom themselves to illustrating their conversations with structural drawings. Professionalism demands it, for these ideograms impart specificity to discussions that would suffer vagueness without them. 

What to do about impurities. When an impurity contaminates a sample, the submitter indicates what structure this component has, if she knows. She estimates, if possible, how much of it is present. Admittedly, no estimate may be possible and structural knowledge lacking nevertheless, professionalism demands a note revealing the presence of an impurity. 

We wish to thank all the many contributors for their efforts, and their patience and restraint in dealing with the Editors who took a fairly demanding approach to establishing the format, length, style, and content of the articles. We hope the readers will consider our efforts worthwhile. Finally, we would like to thank Lee Fitzpatrick of Manning Publications Co. for her professional help as Managing Editor. 

As Flemings points out, compared with the middle of the twentieth century, MSE departments now have to prepare their students for quite different professional lives. The key question that seems to arise from these figures is Do university departments put too much emphasis on research And yet, before we conclude that they do, we must remember that it is widely agreed that research is what keeps university faculty alert and able to teach in an up-to-date way. It may well be that what students currently want, and what the health and progress of MSE demands, are two distinct things. 

As health-care professionals we need to identify and solve the problem together with the patient, and we need to do it in a rational and cost-effective way. For a practitioner this is not easy based on the rapidly expanding progress within the medical area, increasing demand from patients, and the manipulation of information from various interests in the field. First we need drugs and other treatments with documented effects (efficacy) in the elderly. Then we need to select the most appropriate drug for the individual patient. The latter is complicated and evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been suggested as the method. Finally we need to communicate with the patient and establish a partnership (concordance). 

Although the future for the rights of professional employees in this area is rather bright, for the present one must negotiate and demand that provisions for employment security be specifically incorporated into the terms of the employment contract. These cases where the court looks beyond one s rights under the contract in granting relief to a terminated employee remain exceptions, not the rule. 

In this book of the series, a more traditional area of research in the field of renewable resonrces is discnssed. It is indeed a long-standing topic to utilize wood for a vast number of applications however, it is a very active and changing field of research. The modification of wood needs to be compatible with the increasing demands at the environmental level, the social role of forests and woods and the technical characteristics needed to create certain materials. This book certainly paves the way to give the professional reader a taste of this area and offers an np-to-date overview of the different kinds of modification and the impact on the dnrability of the materials. 

To report an error, practitioners may phone USP toll-free at 1-800-23ERROR. A voice-mail system allows a report to be left 24 hr a day, seven days a week. Callers may submit reports anonymously, or speak directly to one of USP health professional staff. Alternatively, a report may be submitted to USP in writing. Report forms (Fig. lA and B) may be obtained by calling USP directly or via an on-demand faxback system. Practitioners may also employ the form online on the USP website. 

The scene takes place with a well-educated white male confronting an African American professional regarding the unfairness of affirmative action and its attendant preferential treatment of unqualified minorities. The young white male demands an explanation as to why minorities should not be required to compete on equal footing with white males like him. He demands to know why hardworking white men like him should be passed over for... 

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