Dr. Anne Armstrong-Coben has provided a spot-on description of the fallibilities of the electronic medical record from the standpoint of the doctor-patient encounter.

Publishers call them hot historicals as opposed to either the virginal variety Barbara Cartland writes or to the bodice rippers because that's usually what happens to the heroines, Price explained.

True, the wreath might have been improved with a little more care; … Though, after all, we are, perhaps, too chary; for in nature every leaf is not ironed out to a form, nor propped up with a wiry precision; but blown and ruffled by the refreshing breezes, and looking as easy, and careless, and unaffected, as a child that bounds along with its silken locks tossed to and fro just as the wind uplifts them. Page after page of this volume have we perused with a feeling of pleasure and admiration.

Moreover, control dogs were judged to be healthy on the basis of normal results on physical examination, hematological and serum biochemical analysis, urinalysis, multiple fecal examinations, and dirofilaria antigen assay.