Craig Barnes

Craig Barnes is a Customer Insights Analyst and Chairperson of the Nedbank LGTBQI+ Forum. Discrimination aimed at the LGBTQI+ community persists throughout society, particularly in more conservative and rural areas, and the legislation intended to address it is not consistently implemented and enforced. When it comes to discrimination, South Africans know a lot.

Case Summary An otherwise healthy 14-month-old boy was admitted to the hospital with swelling in his feet and difficulty breathing related to upper respiratory infection symptoms. Work-up revealed congestive heart failure (CHF) with elevated serum brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and troponin. Physical examination revealed full-appearing cheeks, small stature, and extremity hypotonia, as well as an inability to crawl or walk independently.

When the delegates to the American Constitutional convention met in 1787 to discuss a new order of the ages, they had a healthy concern for both human virtue and human flaws. They did not consider men to be entirely good or evil. They thus developed a scheme that would separate the powers of government in the hope that if the unlettered masses became too strong through the popularly elected Congress the Supreme Court might restrain them.