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Confidence Intervals
From Evidence based confessions of a student nurse on 06 November 2009
It is well recognised that many students and qualified nurses alike struggle to get their heads around statistics. Confidence intervals are essential to understanding nursing research, but can instil feelings of blind panic in the uninitiated. Like so many technical concepts they are intimidating when you don’t understand them, but not so difficult once you more...
Julian Sheather: Should we help people self-harm?
From BMJ on 05 November 2009
Once in every while an ethical dilemma will swim across the horizon, a dilemma whose wake will induce in me a bout of moral seasickness. My compass spins, my bearings wheel and lurch. One such is the reappearance of “facilitated self-harm”. I am not over-fond of the word “facilitate”. It drips with the oil more...
When the Witch Asks a Question, I Can’t Resist
From Journal of Medical Ethics blog on 04 November 2009
In the replies to this thread, The Witch Doctor asks this: A Scenario: Apparently there are some sites on the web just now claiming that the world is going to end in 2012. Some teenagers are becoming agitated. I don’t want to be around when the world ends, so I’m going to drink some poison and present to more...
Botulism case in Scotland
From BMJ Case Reports blog on 04 November 2009
There are reports of a case of an infant with botulism in Scotland. “A 16-week-old baby boy is fighting for his life after being diagnosed with botulism. Logan Douglas was admitted to hospital in Edinburgh where doctors spotted signs of the rare disease and ordered a test. Health protection experts said there had not been a report of more...
- Harvey Marcovitch: ‘O wad some power the giftie gie us’
- From BMJ on 04 November 2009
- The Art of Making Sense of Life and Death
- From Medical Humanities on 03 November 2009
- Stephen Ginn on David Nutt being sacked
- From BMJ on 02 November 2009
- Richard Smith: The beginning of the end for impact factors and journals
- From BMJ on 02 November 2009
- Domhnall Macauley on exercise is medicine
- From BMJ on 02 November 2009
- David Pencheon: We face a SSTEEEP learning curve
- From BMJ on 01 November 2009
- Biomedical Ethics Film Festival
- From Journal of Medical Ethics blog on 31 October 2009
- David Nutt and Unpopular Science
- From Journal of Medical Ethics blog on 31 October 2009
- Tom Nolan on what every doctor should know about the swine flu vaccine
- From BMJ on 30 October 2009
- David Payne: Open access and the editor’s choice
- From BMJ on 30 October 2009
- Right to a fair trial: St John’s wort
- From HeadtoHead on 29 October 2009
- Siddhartha Yadav: My first conference as a speaker
- From BMJ on 29 October 2009
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