Medicine and the Media piece in the BMJ. Free link here
Continue Reading →Are GPs failing new mothers with postnatal depression?
According to the Guardian, on the 1st October, we GPs are. I quote Ann Longfield, chief executive of 4Children, on a survey done of new mothers, which supposedly show most are offered antidepressants, not counselling : “Longfield said that the results of the report were shocking and showed that postnatal depression was not being taken seriously: “It […]
Continue Reading →Client or patient?
I want to be a patient, and to treat patients. Following on from twitter discussion, here’s something I prepared earlier.
Continue Reading →Food from the brain wants your money
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 […]
Continue Reading →GMTV’s Dr Steele is wrong to promote cervical screening in under 25s
Medicine in the Media article in the BMJ, free link here.
Continue Reading →Drugs, the doctors dilemma
article in the Independent, after the Lancet papers of yesterday.
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →Dorrie’s abortion amendment and the health bill
Did Nadine distract us from the Health and Social Care Bill? Free link to BMJ article here.
Continue Reading →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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