Category: Medicine

26/11/2015

Pharmaceuticals companies used to be research enterprises that discovered and developed drugs. Then they became marketing giants, skilled at selling…

18/11/2015

Interesting what comes in your mail. 'A dog at the master's gate predicts the ruin of the state' Dear Doctor,…

17/11/2015

This story is not just about physical infrastructure but also about expertise and the relation between expertise and 'practice'. It…

10/11/2015

Howard Green has died. I only met him once, although interacted with Jim Rheinwald a little more a long time…

07/11/2015

“Money spent that makes a population more economically productive by getting people off sick leave and back to work is…

05/11/2015

"Germany justifiably takes pride in its long tradition, and high standards, in science. So what is going so badly wrong…

24/10/2015

Tax disputes are the third biggest source of potential payouts for the UK government after nuclear decommissioning and clinical negligence.…

23/10/2015

There is a J Kenneth Galbraith quote, something along the lines of, ' the denigration of value judgment is one…

20/10/2015

“Providing the services of an orthopedic surgeon or other procedural specialist costs approximately $4 per minute. A generalist physician whose…

19/10/2015

A colleague says this is philosophy (not meant as a compliment).  I would like to think it is an essay…