http://blogs.bmj.com/adc-archimedes/2009/03/09/risk-vs-prognostic-factors/ Just another blogs.bmj.com weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:35:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blogs.bmj.com/adc-archimedes/2009/03/09/risk-vs-prognostic-factors/#comment-360 Bob Phillips Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:26:33 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/adc-archimedes/?p=49#comment-360 Tom, you get the gold star. John Snow, as everyone knows, discovered that bad water caused cholera, and pulled the greatest PR stunt an epidemiologist has (ever?) managed by taking off the Broad Street pump handle ... after the peak of the epidemic had passed. Tom, you get the gold star. John Snow, as everyone knows, discovered that bad water caused cholera, and pulled the greatest PR stunt an epidemiologist has (ever?) managed by taking off the Broad Street pump handle … after the peak of the epidemic had passed.

]]> http://blogs.bmj.com/adc-archimedes/2009/03/09/risk-vs-prognostic-factors/#comment-359 Tom Moberly Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:10:36 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/adc-archimedes/?p=49#comment-359 It's a bit small to make out, but I assume the picture is John Snow's map of Broad Street in Soho with Cholera cases marked. I doubt I'm the first to spot the link, but thought I may as well post anyway. It’s a bit small to make out, but I assume the picture is John Snow’s map of Broad Street in Soho with Cholera cases marked. I doubt I’m the first to spot the link, but thought I may as well post anyway.

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