A clinician-scientist--or clinician-investigator, or whatever name one chooses--is a clinician who thinks about improving diagnosis and treatment for his/her patients and makes an effort to find a rational answer to unsolved questions.
In such circumstances, a judge is a rational answer.
The most poignant issue coming out of this study was the parents' struggles to come to terms with the "why?" to find a rational answer to why their child chose to commit suicide, an answer that would make it possible for the bereaved to come to rest and go on with their own lives.
Mr. Rudman, a New Hampshire Republican, said in an interview that though he had not yet seen details of the White House budget request for next year, there was "no rational answer" for the Bush administration's decision not to seek more money for domestic security.
No rational answer here," writes Mary Kenny.
Of course, there's no rational answer to that.
"It certainly calls for a rational explanation — and none has been provided".
So much for a rational discussion of national security issues.
Four obstacles for a rational evidence-based psychiatry were recognised.
Solving a Kelly variant assuming a lognormal distribution helps drive rational answers to questions such as check size or dry powder calculations.
