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Remembering Our Heritage: Studies in Friends Beliefs
The material in this booklet was first written by Charles S. Ball in the form of eight articles for The Collegiate Contact, the monthly publication for college students in California Yearly Meeting of the Friends Church. At the time of publication, collegians received the articles with considerable appreciation for their relevance, lucidity and scholarly tone.
In response to many requests that the articles be made available for a wider circulation, the Board of Christian Education of California Yearly Meeting has authorized this reprinting. It is our hope that this material may be of great value as resource material for membership classes, study groups, Sunday School teachers and all who may be interested in acquainting themselves more fully with Friends beliefs.
In their original intent these essays were particularly oriented to relate Friends beliefs to the basic doctrines of Protestantism at large. Topics were selected for their relevance to the college community, and the brevity of the articles was dictated by the format of The Collegiate Contact.
Charles S. Ball is a birthright Friend who was recorded as a minister by Ohio Yearly Meeting, Damascus, Ohio. After serving as pastor in Ohio, he headed the Friends Bible College and Academy of Haviland, Kansas, taught in the Bible Department of Friends University, and was president of William Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, for eight years before becoming pastor of the East Whittier Friends Church in Whittier, California.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerbooks/1075/thumbnail.jp
Evaluation of the primary/secondary care interface in relation to a primary care rheumatology service
Objective The rheumatology department at The
Royal Oldham Hospital developed a primary care
service aimed at bridging the gap between primary
and secondary care for patients with potential
rheumatological conditions, and this was given
the name rheumatology Tier 2. The objective of
this study was to evaluate this primary care rheumatology
service (Tier 2)in order to assess its
validity, patient satisfaction and effectiveness.
Design Ten patients participated in individual
semi-structured interviews. Three GPs were interviewed
individually, and two GPs formed a focus
group. Thematic analysis was used to interpret the
findings.
Setting Patients were recruited from seven consecutive
rheumatology Tier 2 clinics. GPs were
recruited from Oldham Primary Care Trust (PCT)
as this was the main source of patient referrals for
the service.
Results The key findings were in relation to the
integration of primary healthcare and hospital services,
i.e. the primary/secondary care interface. This
highlighted the importance of early assessment,
diagnosis and treatment of patients with suspected
inflammatory arthritis.
Conclusion Early diagnosis and treatment with
disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs improves
patients’ outcomes. The rheumatology Tier 2 service
built on this evidence and provided a rapid
assessment and referral to secondary care for those
patients with suspected inflammatory arthritis
Patient and practitioner views of a new rheumatology (Tier 2) primary care service
The rheumatology Tier 2 service in Oldham was
implemented to see patients in a primary care
setting for their initial assessment. They were treated
and discharged within the service, or referred on to
secondary care in order to limit inappropriate
attendance in secondary care and fast-track patients
with inflammatory disease to the rheumatology
consultant. The aim of this study was to evaluate
patients’ and general practitioners’ (GPs’) views
about the transfer of rheumatological services
from secondary to primary care. Patients and GPs
were from a single primary care trust in Oldham,
north west England. A thematic analysis of interview
data was taken, and findings showed high
patient satisfaction with the service, favouring the
primary care environment to a hospital setting. GPs
reported on cost-effectiveness of the service and
better management of the disease. The Tier 2 service
has the potential to set a new direction for multiagency
care within a primary care setting
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Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) in women is defined variably, but for clinical use it is cyclical or non-cyclical pain of at least 3-6 months' duration. It has major impacts on individuals and society. There are both structural and idiopathic causes. Whereas CPP is not curable in many cases, it is treatable. The most promising approach is multidisciplinary patient-centered care including cause-directed therapy, lifestyle changes, talking therapies, meditation, acupuncture, and physiotherapy (this is not a complete list). One of the most common structural causes for CPP is endometriosis. This review investigates current scientific concepts and recent innovations in this field as well as for CPP in general
Scheme Dependence at Small x
We discuss the evolution of F_2^p at small x, emphasizing the uncertainties
related to expansion, fitting, renormalization and factorization scheme
dependence. We find that perturbative extrapolation from the measured region
down to smaller x and lower Q^2 may become strongly scheme dependent.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX with epsfig, 2 uuencoded figure
Quark Model of Diffractive Processes
Numerical results from a previously described model of diffraction scattering with nonshrinking forward peaks are presented, and the model is reformulated in terms of quarks with a view to making it more realistic
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