Medicine in the Media article in the BMJ, free link here.
Continue Reading →Drugs, the doctors dilemma
article in the Independent, after the Lancet papers of yesterday.
Continue Reading →GPs ‘failing cancer patients’
From the Guardian, and also making it’s way forth into the Daily Mail, the Mirror, Management in Practice, and Pulse , amongst others. The story is apparently that “GPs are failing to identify conditions such as osteoporosis, heart disease and bowel trouble that can affect patients’ lives for years after they have become free of tumours, claims […]
Continue Reading →Dorrie’s abortion amendment and the health bill
Did Nadine distract us from the Health and Social Care Bill? Free link to BMJ article here.
Continue Reading →Advocacy, and what GPs do.
Interesting twitter discussion about what GPs do, and who is whose advocate. Muir Grey thinks “the patient is the principal some not all need an advocate” , and that “because of ‘information asymmetry’.. it is often difficult for the citizen to act like a principal.” I am confused and dismayed by the logic that then, […]
Continue Reading →The bicycle is almost ready
Adult and child asylum seekers
should be treated with humanity. Free link to BMJ article here.
Continue Reading →The Health bill : lack of coverage is a bad prognosis
Health and Social Care Bill has apparently been carried. The government won with a majority of 65. Look at the ‘debate’ here – a sedate affair, with plenty of jolly laughing, a bit of sexism, and an aside about the wonders of complementary medicine thrown in. A sixth year debating society would have done better. Meantime, the […]
Continue Reading →More or Less
Little 7 minute section on the placebo effect, acupunture, and ethics. Available on listen again on iplayer, here.
Continue Reading →Choices for screening and paternalism
Luisa Dillner wrote a statistically correct and informative article about breast screening in the Guardian recently; she has been replied to by Chris Askew, the chief executive of Breakthrough Breast Cancer. He makes a big mistake. In his first paragraph, he says “Breakthrough Breast Cancer hopes this will not discourage women from attending their breast-screening […]
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