Category: Medicine

30/03/2018

Most, if not all, of us, if asked to be cared for by a television doctor if we had a…

21/03/2018

So, where it this from? At the peak of the crisis, the hospital had the equivalent of eight full-time pharmacy…

08/02/2018

I love statistics, but I am just not very good at it, and find much of it extremely counter intuitive…

05/02/2018

The Osborne effect is described in Wikipedia as follows: The Osborne effect is a term referring to the unintended consequences…

31/01/2018

After earning his medical degree in 1951 he trained in hospitals in Montreal. “To my surprise I also found I…

29/01/2018

This article in the NEJM gets to the kernel of one of the major problems in medicine: the increasing dysfunction…

15/01/2018

'On December 16, 2017, the staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were instructed not to use…

28/12/2017

Yan Lecun of Facebook wrote: In the history of science and technology, the engineering artefacts have almost always preceded the…

15/12/2017

Recent years have seen a major drive by government, the NHS, and mental health charities to change attitudes towards mental…

14/12/2017

Enrico Fermi was big on back-of-the-envelope calculations. I cannot match his brain, but I like playing with simple arithmetic. Here…