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Doctors and lawyers in the disciplinary board work together intensively, each from their own professional perspective, whereby the mutual dynamics greatly benefit the quality of the judgments: 1+1=3. How this cooperation takes place is not always visible to outsiders. After all, the session of the disciplinary board is public, but what is discussed before and after the session in the council chamber is decided and only comes out in the form of the ruling. How does that process work in the council chamber? Does the input of lawyers and doctors differ? What if they disagree? How do they reach an agreement? In this contribution two lawyers, a doctor and former doctor (member-lawyer), four authors from the Central Disciplinary Board for Health Care (CTG), give an insight into the chemistry between lawyers and doctors of the CTG.

Atom Probe Tomography (APT) analysis and hardness measurements were used to characterize the early stages of precipitation in an Al-0.51 at%Mg-0.94 at%Si alloy as reported in the accompanying Acta Materialia paper [1]. The changes in microstructure were investigated after single-stage or multi-stage heat treatments including natural ageing at 298 K (NA), pre-ageing at 353 K (PA), and automotive paint-bake ageing conditions at 453 K (PB). This article provides and a detailed report on the experimental conditions and the data analysis methods used for this investigation. Careful design of experimental conditions and analysis methods was carried out to obtain consistent and reliable results. Detailed data on clustering for prolonged NA and PA treatments have been reported.

The internal crystalline structure of a human molar tooth has been non-destructively imaged in cross-section using X-ray diffraction computed tomography. Diffraction signals from high-energy X-rays which have large attenuation lengths for hard biomaterials have been collected in a transmission geometry. Coupling this with a computed tomography data acquisition and mathematically reconstructing their spatial origins, diffraction patterns from every voxel within the tooth can be obtained. Using this method we have observed the spatial variations of some key material parameters including nanocrystallite size, organic content, lattice parameters, crystallographic preferred orientation and degree of orientation. We have also made a link between the spatial variations of the unit cell lattice parameters and the chemical make-up of the tooth. In addition, we have determined how the onset of tooth decay occurs through clear amorphization of the hydroxyapatite crystal, and we have been able to map the extent of decay within the tooth. The described method has strong prospects for non-destructive probing of mineralized biomaterials., (Copyright © 2013 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

A woman aged 58 had been suffering for 11 years from a rodent ulcer to the face. The patient, who suffered from a delusional disorder associated with a personality disorder not otherwise defined, had all that time refused medical treatment. She was admitted by virtue of the Wet Bijzondere Opnemingen in Psychiatrische Ziekenhuizen (BOPZ; Bill on Compulsory Admission to Psychiatric Hospitals) because of 'major self-neglect with risk of death'; also, substitute permission was obtained from her son for somatic treatment by virtue of the Wet op de Geneeskundige Behandelingsovereenkomst (WGBO; Decree on the Medical Contract). It was found that the ulcer was no longer amenable to treatment.