One of the many takeaways from this week’s excellent Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference is that it’s hard for doctors to tell their patients that too much care is bad. For so […]
Month: September 2013
David Payne: Open House London’s healthy buildings
Akerman—a £12.3m community healthcare building designed by the architectual practice Henley Halebrown Rorrison—opened last year as part of the regeneration of Myatts Field North in the south London borough of Lambeth. […]
William Cayley: Measurement—at the expense of success
“Doc, how’s my blood pressure? What about my cholesterol? How about my weight?” “There’s room for improvement,” I say. “How much do you exercise? How many fruits and vegetables do […]
Edward Davies: Overdiagnosis—what are we so afraid of?
Evidence based medicine is first and foremost at the Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference in Dartmouth this week. The importance of data, research, and careful analysis has been repeatedly hammered home, with […]
Liu Xu et al: Chinese doctors leaving public hospitals—brain drain or emancipation?
Recently the resignation of Yu Ying, a Chinese female doctor from a famous public hospital has provoked heated discussions among the Chinese netizens. Yu Ying was an […]
Tessa Richards: Lifting the lid on information and learning from it
Progress. The march towards giving patients online access to their medical records is accelerating. The Society of Participatory Medicine has put out the bunting in welcome to the announcement by […]
Richard Smith: Is the pharmaceutical industry like the mafia?
The piece that follows is my foreword to a new and fascinating book by Peter Gøtzsche, the head of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, entitled Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How […]
Alison Spurrier on the demise of the Liverpool care pathway
I would cautiously suggest that these days “death and dying” is no longer the taboo subject it used to be. People are aware of their mortality and seem to be […]
Aser Garcia Rada: The chaos and injustice of excluding migrants from public funded healthcare—lessons from Spain
On 1 September 2012 the conservative Spanish government of the People’s Party ended 26 years of highly valued universal healthcare coverage. The Royal decree 16/2012 on urgent measures to guarantee […]
Richard Smith: Time for science to be about truth rather than careers
Most scientific studies are wrong, and they are wrong because scientists are interested in funding and careers rather than truth. That was the chilling message delivered by the smiling, brilliant, […]