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"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition" Adam Smith. A blog from a British doctor.
A Northern Doctor
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Dr Margaret McCartney’s Blog- Waky up time: pathology isn’t black and white 20 July, 2010..and if I remember much from histology, it often comes in shades of pink. The NYT today has an interesting article; shock horror - cancer that might not be. It focuses on the DCIS phenonema – if you have been reading for a while you’ll know that ductal carcinoma in situ is a ‘cancer’ that wasn’t known [...]
- Waky up time: pathology isn’t black and white 20 July, 2010
- Dr Grumble
- Dicing with death 24 July, 2010Once or twice the Jobbing Doctor has commented on how odd it is that he has seen three cases of a condition that he hasn't seen for ages all in one week. The same thing happens in hospitals. Very rare things come in runs. You would think that it couldn't happen by chance but it does. If you listen to radioactive decay using a Geiger counter the bli […]
- Dicing with death 24 July, 2010
- Layscience
- PSHE update 30 July, 2010As the DSCF no longer exists, the Department of Health asked NICE to run a consultation on sex and relationships education. It's pretty much a re-run of the earlier consultation. I wrote this consultation response for work. There is a lot more to say on the subject of PSHE and Dr Petra Boynton has covered all the main issues in her blog.Tessera
- PSHE update 30 July, 2010
- The Jobbing Doctor
- Going out 1 August, 2010
- Bad Medicine
- Schrödinger DecisionsUp and down the land, clipboard operatives guided by local PCTs are stomping through care home lounges, offering, as is the way these days, the Gilberts and Biddies all manner of advice and assessments. Those who are found to have mental capacity are read their rights, including the right to refuse treatment; and, if they are so minded, offered a DIY death w […]
- Schrödinger Decisions
- DC’s Science
- Pepsigeddon: why bloggers shouldn’t be paid 9 July, 2010Jump to follow-up I’m baffled. Why is it that beautiful, high quality blogs like Orac’s Respectful Insolence, wanted to be on a commercially-run site in the first place? Scienceblogs is such a site and it recently caused a crisis when it accepted a paid PR piece by Pepsico (without warning its bloggers first). This was not [...]
- Pepsigeddon: why bloggers shouldn’t be paid 9 July, 2010
- Bad Science
- Boris Johnson and his innovative trial methodologyBen Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 31 July 2010 It’s the near misses that really make you want to shoot your own face off. This week the Centre for Policy Studies has published a pamphlet on education which has been covered by the Mirror, the Mail, the BBC, the Telegraph, the Express, the Guardian, and more. [...]
- Boris Johnson and his innovative trial methodology
