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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 […]

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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, […]

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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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