Category: Medicine

18/04/2019

“There’s a classic medical aphorism,” he recalls. “‘Listen to the patient, they’re telling you the diagnosis.’ Actually, a lot of…

09/04/2019

We have no  incentives doctors. Shortage of GPs will never end, health experts say | Society | The Guardian OK,…

04/04/2019

P53 and Me | NEJM A long, long time ago, I published papers on p53 and skin (demonstrating p53 upregulation…

03/04/2019

I like statistics and spent most of my intercalated degree ‘using’ medical stats (essentially, writing programs on an IBM 360…

02/04/2019

A couple of articles from the two different domains of my professional life made me riff on some old memes.…

14/03/2019

Why Is Medicine So Expensive? Not often I spot typos in the New York Review of Books, but here is…

13/03/2019

“It’s not that easy to make money out of emptying anal glands.” Interesting article in the Economist on what is…

06/03/2019

The parallels between being a school teacher and being a doctor interest me. It is difficult to think of any…

02/03/2019

Nothing new under the needle After needles and morphine were deployed in the American civil war, as many as 100,000…

23/01/2019

News Feature: What are the limits of deep learning? | PNAS  In addition to its vulnerability to spoofing, for example,…