By David Hunter Thom Brooks on facebook has pointed out this hilarious rhetorical fact checking fail from Neo-conservatives debating the public provision of health care in the US: […]
Category: Blogosphere
Floppity MD
This is the first installment of Matazone’s “Floppity MD” series – and it’s well worth spending a couple of minutes looking at more recent installments, too: they provide an all-too-easily forgotten warning about purple, scalpel-carrying, semi-psychopathic cuddly toys. I believe there may be a Hugh Laurie reference or two in there as well. […]
Dan Sulmasy’s Crystal Ball
Dan Sulmasy has a piece on Bioethics Forum at the moment in which he considers the next 40 years of bioethics. It’s a curious piece, making six main claims or predictions about the future, to which I’ll return in a minute: but before that, I think it’s worth looking at his scene-setting: I suggest that bioethics […]
Cosmetic Surgery and the Purpose of Medicine
For quite a while now, I’ve had the idea that I’d like to write something about the purpose of medicine – it’s something I’ve been adding on job applications for about 5 years, but I’ve not got around to doing all that much about it yet. The question as I saw it was whether medicine […]
More on prayer…
Wouldn’t you know it, my favourite religious commentator (and I favour one religious commentator over another in the sense that I favour a hangover over a migraine or burst aneurysm) George Pitcher has weighed into the prayer on the wards coverage. Guess what? His opinions aren’t impressive. […]
I’m Glad it’s all Over
A little while ago, I mentioned Jamie Ross’ admirable Cancerous Capers blog. Well – for all the best reasons – there won’t be any more updates. His reason? Having cancer was tedious enough; but with radiotherapy over, banging on about not having it would be even more tedious. Assuming he gets the all-clear in a couple […]
Just One More Drugs Post, then I’ll Stop.
I can stop, you know. Any time. Honest. Perhaps as something of a counterbalance to the generally pro-decriminalisation stuff I’ve been posting for the past couple of months, it’s worth pointing to Alexandre Erler’s piece on the issue on the Practical Ethics blog. The tone of the post is thoughtful and more sympathetic to the […]
Anyone’d Think I was Addicted
It’s another one of those posts about drug policy, I’m aftaid: this week’s All in the Mind covered the Portuguese experiment with decriminalisation (about which I posted recently), and is available to listen for the next few days. Depressingly, one of the contributors dropped a fairly broad hint – accurately, I think – that the UK […]
The Telegraph has Got me Worried – or Given me an Investment Idea
A short time ago, I mentioned George Pitcher’s extraordinarily lame showing on the Today programme, when he was invited to talk about assisted suicide. I included a link to his blog – and, I admit it, this was partly intended so that he’d get an “incoming link” notification and either make a comment here, or refer […]