It was the White Queen who told Alice that she had at times thought six contradictory things before breakfast. We humans have a remarkable tolerance for incompatibility, happily living with […]
Month: August 2009
Tom Nolan: How much flu is out there?
Measuring the tip of the iceberg The Health Protection Agency estimates that there were 110,000 new cases of swine flu in England last week,10,000 more than the week before. But […]
James Raftery: Bypassing NICE for the sake of innovation?
Recent reports that NICE was to be bypassed by drugs which were “innovative,” with funding from a new separate budget, sent me in search of the source report – the […]
Anna Donald’s last blog
Anna Donald died on 1 February 2009. The blog below was found on her computer posthumously. At a memorial service for her at UCL on 26 April 2009, a six […]
Richard Smith on living funerals
As we begin to assimilate the reality of assisted suicide we should also take the next step to living funerals. I’ve never been to one, but a living funeral is […]