free link to BMJ article here
Continue Reading →GENERIC PRESS RELEASE FROM (health charity)
I do feel slightly guilty about this, because there are some very good health charities out there. BMJ summer column. Dear [health journalist], As awareness day/week/month for [disease] is coming up fast—just the thing for those summer slow news days!—we have lots to offer you for features, comment, articles, photos! CELEBRITY! We are very happy […]
Continue Reading →We are in serious trouble over screening
BMJ summer column, here but cut and pasted till the login works below. We are in serious trouble over screening. For all that medicine has cringed at paternalism and “doctor knows best,” has wrung its collective hands, and promised to do better, screening is still the last great preserve of unethical practice. If you are […]
Continue Reading →BMJ and that BJGP acupuncture paper
free link to my BMJ article here. I am wondering if this is the first time the Daily Mash has been quoted in the BMJ, along with the excellent DC, Northern Doctor, and the Quackometer. DC has done a good job with the follow up in the BJGP, which I don’t find satisfactory; see here, […]
Continue Reading →The NHS opened up to devastation
Guardian: “He pointed out that the former prime minister’s abnormal heart rhythms could today be treated by using the telephone to measure the heart beats and give an instant diagnosis, followed by a call from a nurse advising on whether the patient needed to “go to hospital or not”. “You could cut dramatically the number […]
Continue Reading →BMJ: the scam of integrative medicine
Here. (I will take down the text once have toll free link from bmj.) There’s been a shift in the world of alternative NHS medicine. I know, I know, alternative so called medicine is only medicine that doesn’t work: so how come it’s still chumming up with our evidence aware NHS? It’s not, you see, […]
Continue Reading →Waterlogged?
an article in the BMJ following on from posts earlier about the Hydration for Health adverts on the BMJ website.
Continue Reading →DVT, uncertainty and hospitals
You and Yours today had a feature about thrombosis. They suggest on their website that “hospitals are failing to risk assess patients for DVT resulting in thousands dying needlessly”. The mortality issue around preventing DVT – blood clots – in hospitals is a very interesting one. NICE guidelines last year said that ” A note of […]
Continue Reading →Coalition loses it : the NHS really is for sale
“And in all these areas, the data will be updated regularly,” he said. Whitehall sources say that clinical audit data will show which GPs have never diagnosed a case of cancer, for example. The figures will be available from December. Information about individual GP practices will also be made available with patients able to judge […]
Continue Reading →NSAIDs and cardiac arrhythmias
I am beginning to understand Twitter a bit. I was intending to go and write about the headlines earlier this week, about NSAIDs and the risk of cardiac arrhythmias, which made several front pages earlier this week. The Metro put it like this ” popular painkillers such as ibuprofen can put patients at risk of heart […]
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