Category: Medicine

12/06/2019

Surgeons? ”A lot of patients are still having open surgery when they should be getting minimal access surgery,” said Mr…

06/06/2019

Moving on Now I’m the one contemplating a permanent departure. My health is fine, but my stamina is pretty much…

05/06/2019

On Expertise ‘The Socratic slogan- “If you understand it, you can explain it’, should be reversed.  Anyone who thinks he…

02/06/2019

That was yesterday GlaxoSmithKline is to reintroduce performance-based bonuses linked to the number of prescriptions written for its medicines, reversing…

27/05/2019

This is a little old, but I snapped it as I was passing through a hospital. It speaks volumes about…

18/05/2019

We will need even bigger prisons Mr Kapoor’s co-defendants were Michael Gurry, Insys’s former vice-president of managed markets, Richard Simon,…

14/05/2019

A diagnosis not to miss: email apnea A phenomenon that occurs when a person opens their email inbox to find…

13/05/2019

You need a wallet biopsy “However, if a wallet biopsy – one of the procedures in which American hospitals specialise…

30/04/2019

Why wait so long? Apparently, on average, doctors interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of beginning their story. When we tell…

19/04/2019

I read an earlier book of Eric Topol’s (The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better…