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Richard Smith: Does antimicrobial resistance pose “as great a threat to humanity’s future” as climate change?
Both antimicrobial resistance and climate change are manmade disasters that we have failed to confront, says Richard Smith […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Dose-response curves
Having started with Paracelsus’s observation that “only the dose determines that a thing is not a poison”, followed by discussions of chemical affinity and the Law of Mass Action, I […]
Charlotte Squires: A tale of three stethoscopes
Some years ago, as an earnest second year student, I walked into a shop opposite Edinburgh’s old medical school, and came out with a hunter green, entry level stethoscope. The […]
Martin McKee: Healthcare has brought people together across the Irish border—now Brexit threatens what has been achieved
A no deal Brexit would tear up healthcare arrangements for Irish border communities and threaten the hard-won peace, says Martin McKee […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . The Law of Mass Action
As I discussed two weeks ago, Paracelsus’s well-known statement, first published in his Sieben Defensiones in 1564, that “only the dose determines that a thing is not a poison” suggested, […]
Martin McKee: If leaked Operation Yellowhammer document is wrong, then the government must publish the right one
Grave concerns prompted by leaked analysis of no deal Brexit preparations cannot be dispelled or tackled by hollow assurances, says Martin McKee […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Affinity
Last week I discussed Paracelsus’s well-known statement, first published in his Sieben Defensiones in 1564, that “only the dose determines that a thing is not a poison.” I suggested, based […]
Richard Smith: A novel that tells brutal truths about doctors, hospitals, and the treatment of dying patients
The truth is in the fiction, says Martin Amis, novelist and essayist. Somethings are just too painful, too awful, or too revealing to write about yourself or your colleagues, but […]
Kieran Walsh: Too much medicine—practical tools that could help
Doctors are constantly being told that they overdiagnose and overtreat their patients. They are told that they overdiagnose and overtreat a range of conditions—but one simple example is the overdiagnosis […]