Category: Medicine

07/10/2015

From a nuanced review of 'Let me heal: the opportunity to preserve excellence in American medicine', by Kenneth Ludmerer. The…

26/09/2015

“I think this is the most thoroughly examined case study of research misconduct in the 2000s, and I don’t know…

25/09/2015

It was probably the most expensive tweet in history. A 21-word missive from Hillary Clinton on Monday wiped more than…

04/09/2015

There is a heartfelt letter in Academic medicine. Is is from a former graduate specialty program director (PD) (TK Swoboda) and…

03/09/2015

The quality of Wikipedia entries is a topic of vigorous debate, and even with its semiformal internal peer review process,…

01/09/2015

Oliver Sacks has died. I haven't read any of his books for a long time, but I loved 'Awakenings', and…

24/08/2015

Remember the trope: exceptions prove the rule. Well, in biology, it is mutants that are often informative. Not so much…

19/08/2015

A YEAR ago a hospital in São Paulo announced that its maternity ward would henceforth only admit clients from 10am…

16/08/2015

This is the most scary thing I have read in a while. "Public spending on the NHS is due to…

10/08/2015

One of the dangers of focussing on  learning natural science is that you may become oblivious to all the unnatural…