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- Podcast 14: Alcohol-related harm in general practice
- Managing diabetes is not all about expensive medication
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- GP Sceptics podcast 13: Nurses’ conflicts-of-interest
- A textbook case walked into the room
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- 48-second GP consultations
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- GP Sceptics podcast 12: Doctors’ resilience
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- How to measure med student empathy
- The Fed endures, and so must we
- Tamiflu: an expensive lesson in panic stockpiling
- GP Sceptics podcast 10: GPs at the Deep End
- Pain clinics: how did such a fresh idea turn sour?
- Not just a GP – I’m your specialist in uncertainty
- GP Sceptics podcast 9: The Environment
- Let’s celebrate the bolt-cutter surgeon
- Greater transparency on specialist fees: a no-brainer
- Four Corners Big Vitamins exposé: cuts both ways
- Five reasons why I’d still encourage my child to do medicine
- GP Sceptics podcast 8: Marketing
- Google Health Cards: the first test drive
- GP sceptics podcast 7: EBM Hijacked!
- Does the weather affect our joints?
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- Anne Deveson, who destigmatised schizophrenia
- Why ‘medicine for the rich’ is sometimes inevitable
- GP Sceptics podcast 5: Lyme disease…don’t get sold a lemon
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- Homeopathy: US mandates ‘No evidence’ labels
- With Obamacare gone, how will Trumpcare affect US health?
Tag Archives: healthcare
48-second GP consultations
GPs in some countries have a fleeting moment to do what takes me 15 minutes. Can less be more? Continue reading
Posted in medical writing
Tagged BMJ, consultation, GP, healthcare, Kahneman, Medical Observer
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‘Junior’ doctors: what’s in a label?
Is the term ‘junior doctor’ an insult? Maybe not today, but it will be tomorrow. That’s how these labels roll. Continue reading
Posted in medical writing
Tagged #FOAMed, healthcare, junior, junior doctor, language, medical, registrars
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Tamiflu: an expensive lesson in panic stockpiling
The removal of Tamiflu from the WHO “core medicines” list is an uncomfortable reminder of the $4 billion we spent stockpiling it during the 2009 swine flu. What on earth were we thinking? Continue reading
Posted in medical writing
Tagged EBM, evidence, healthcare, Medical Observer, pharmaceutical, population health, Tamiflu, transparency
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With Obamacare gone, how will Trumpcare affect US health?
The richest health industry in the world woke this morning with a feeling of ‘what just happened?’ Continue reading
Posted in medical writing
Tagged health, healthcare, Medical Observer, pharmaceutical, President, Trump, USA
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