article in the BMJ, with free link here

Medicine and the Media piece in the BMJ. Free link here

to fund ‘research’. I’ve cut and pasted their email flyer, below. It’s very odd. Their test, which I’ve scrutinised here, is not a reliable screening test. See also  here. As the flyer below say of their online test, FFTB have ‘still to test its diagnostic ability’. This is the same company that will write to GPs after […]

Medicine in the Media article in the BMJ, free link here.

article in the Independent, after the Lancet  papers of yesterday.

Did Nadine distract us from the Health and Social Care Bill? Free link to BMJ article here.

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, […]

Trying to make an evidence based decision about this. I am a slow cyclist and prefer cycle paths to roads; I would extend my journey considerably if I could go by path instead. I don’t like busy roads and right hand turns. Twitter is being a great help: I am going to put down the […]

Recent mentions by @amcunningham as to his Cochrane lecture on EBM have prompted me to put up his seminal paper on the Inverse Care Law from the Lancet in 1971. Enjoy.