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Continue Reading →Inside Health and Do Not Resuscitate
Radio 4 Inside Health today – these are the references I used for the column.CPR on television – miracles and misinformation NEJM 1996 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199606133342406 Survival in cancer patients undergoing in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A meta-analysis, Resuscitation, 2006 <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0300957206001328#foot1> The Influence of the Probability of Survival on Patients’ Preferences Regarding Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation – New England Journal of […]
Continue Reading →The Alliance for Natural Health – my response
The Which? investigation into nutritional therapists is ably reported here, on DC’s webpage. The Alliance for Natural Therapies responds by saying that ” Although Dr McCartney’s presence on the panel was presumably to advise on the medical diagnoses involved in the investigation, medical doctors in the UK receive minimal training in nutrition as part of their medical […]
Continue Reading →Inside health – Bayes theorem and itching
Column on Inside Health, Radio 4’s new health programme, hosted by Mark Porter. This mentions Thomas Bayes. It’s near the end. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019c8kt
Continue Reading →Dr Foster and questionable statistics
Article in the BMJ, following on from blogpost below. Free link isn’t working, so posted below Observations Medicine and the Media Consultant cover and mortality among hospital patients BMJ 2012; 344 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d8276 (Published 11 January 2012)Cite this as: BMJ 2012;344:d8276 Article Related content Metrics Responses Margaret McCartney, general practitioner, Glasgow margaret{at}margaretmccartney.com Dr Foster’s […]
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More ‘advice’ on cosmetic surgery.
More references.
Continue Reading →Cosmetic surgery PR advertising terribleness – another reference
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Continue Reading →Read your medical records
Essentially, having access to your own medical records is a good thing. The government have made it clear that this is now a priority and intend to work to make online access for patients so that patients can freely access their own notes. However: I think as it stands it’s unlikely to be very helpful. […]
Continue Reading →Public health and Freud Communications
It is with a heavy heart that I note the Department of Health are not paying attention to the evidence. They have press released their new contract with Freud Communications, who apparently have “delivered a really exciting pitch. They have some big ideas that we believe will not only promote good health but will really change people’s […]
Continue Reading →Political “collaboration” with drug companies
David Cameron is apparently about to announce that private companies – i.e., pharmaceutical companies – will be able to access NHS patient data. Over the last couple of years, I have had concerns that the opt-out system into electronic medical records is wrong, and should instead be an opt-in system. I’ve been concerned that the kind of […]
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