Medication errors in critical care are frequent, serious and predictable.
Medication errors in critical care are frequent, serious, and predictable.
This is not surprising, as it reflects the frequency of G6PD deficiency in a random group of patients; but it is also misleading, because the effect of the drug in any G6PD-deficient patient is serious and predictable.
But this is Connecticut, my home state, where the business of campaigns and governance used to be a predictable, serious affair, the province of mostly estimable public servants who worked their way up through town councils or local party machines.
After 9/11, with America's role in the world more uncertain than ever, would it not make more sense to provide the voters with regular, predictable, serious access to their next president?
The pairing can be predictable, or surprising, serious, or humorous.
Don't tell me Carmichael's case is much more serious, that's priggish and predictable.
There is a declared challenger, the former Fifa executive Jérôme Champagne, but few regard him as a serious obstacle to the extraordinary, predictable spectacle of president Blatter, 79 next year, sailing on, still captain of football's commanding bateau, for four more years.
This was most probably because decisions about daily care are fairly predictable and without serious consequences.
