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.

I am very excited to be getting a new bicycle – albeit one that is about 60 years old. She is simply beautiful; a Rudge Ladies Roadster. She is now being stripped, sorted, retyred, basketted and relit at the wonderful Common Wheel, which I’ve written about years ago here. Buying a bike in such a […]

free link to BMJ article here

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, […]

an article in the BMJ following on from posts earlier about the Hydration for Health adverts on the BMJ website.