The paper provides a review of literature in this area, thereby providing a longitudinal perspective of gender and the medical profession. Moreover, the research sample includes both male and female medical practitioners and medical students, which provides perspectives from both genders and from those who have experience within the medical profession and from those beginning their career in the medical profession. The research will be of value to the medical profession, the NHS and Royal Colleges of Medicine.

This study contrasted the life style habits of college students who were high and low on different dimensions of locus of control. The Levenson Locus of Control Scale was used to assess three locus of control dimensions (Internality, Powerful Others, and Chance); the Tennessee Self‐Description Form (TSDF) assessed four areas of life‐style (Work, Social, Health, and Leisure). High and low groups were formed for each locus of control dimension by taking the top 20% and bottom 20% of the distribution (total N = 162). For all three locus of control variables, a significant interaction was obtained between the high‐low group variable and the four areas of life style. The High Internals, Low Powerful Others, and Low Chance groups obtained significantly higher Work and Health scores than did their counterparts.

We developed a microcolumn adsorption chromatographic technique for assay of plasma retinol. A petroleum ether extract of plasma was fractionated on silicic acid, to isolate retinol. The first eluent, petroleum ether, removed "unidentified fluorescent contaminant" (UFC); the second eluent, cyclohexene, removed traces of UFC and retinyl palmitate. Retinol was eluted by the third eluent, cymeme (p-isopropyl toluene). No recognized plasma vitamin A derivatives, other than retinol, were detectable in the cymene eluate. With the procedure, we could detect a minimum concentration of 7 µg of retinol per deciliter of plasma. Sixty-six plasmas from preschool children were assayed by our "cymene assay," and by the Neeld—Pearson modification of the Carr—Price procedure, the method of Thompson et al., and the column assay of Garry et al. Results by the latter three procedures were similar (P >0.025): the mean plasma retinol ranged from 29.4 to 31.2 (SD, ± 5.8 to 7.4) µg/dl. By the present assay the same samples contained 24.5 (SD, ± 6.8) µg/dl; significantly more was detected by the other procedures (P <0.001). This difference (16-22%) between the cymene assay for retinol and other assays for total vitamin A may reflect, in part, the concentration of other vitamin A derivatives in plasma.

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We present the case of a 23 year-old male who sustained an anterior tibial artery pseudoaneurysm after an apparently innocuous soccer injury. The patient presented with sudden onset severe pain and swelling one week after the injury. The diagnosis was made using duplex ultrasound, and confirmed with CT angiography. Definitive management consisted of endovascular platinum microcoiling. One year later, the patient is asymptomatic and remains active. A review of the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of arterial pseudoaneurysm is presented. Bedside ultrasound in the emergency department may be a useful adjunct in the early identification of pseudoaneurysms.