JAMA 18 Apr 2012 Vol 307 1583 George Orwell predicted a nightmare world where soothing words would mean their opposites, and gave his dystopia the date of 1984. It was […]
Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 16 April 2012
JAMA 11 April 2012 Vol 307 1489 The new editor of JAMA feels that his worthy journal needs a bit of livening up, and who can disagree? He has borrowed […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 10 April 2012
JAMA 4 Apr 2012 Vol 307 1394 A special dread settles on me this week as I know I am going to have to write about breast cancer screening. But […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 2 April 2012
JAMA 28 Mar 2012 Vol 307 1257 Medical conferences exist to affirm everything that hinders the progress of medicine as a compassionate and honest enterprise. They are a showcase for […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 26 March 2012
JAMA 21 Mar 2012 Vol 307 1161 When in Japan, do not attempt to drop down dead. In 800 fire stations around the Islands of the Sun, teams of emergency […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 19 March 2012
JAMA 14 Mar 2012 Vol 307 1029 The Viewpoint pieces in JAMA this week are a strange mix of fact and fantasy. The first is a piece about industry payments […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 12 March 2012
JAMA 7 Mar 2012 Vol 307 915 “Almost 2 and a half million people in the United States die every year, making death the most common health event in the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 5 March 2012
NEJM 1 Mar 2012 Vol 366 777 There is no JAMA this week, and the best things in the New England Journal come right at the start. Whether you are […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 27 February 2012
JAMA 22 Feb 2012 Vol 307 813 When an Italian team of physicists reported that they had detected neutrinos travelling faster than light, the televisual physicist Jim Al-Khalili promised to […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 20 February 2012
JAMA 15 Feb 2012 Vol 306 669 This week’s star Viewpoint piece is about The Unintended Consequences of Conflict of Interest Disclosure. It seems to me that twenty-first century medicine […]