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The Crippen Diaries - 2008 : December (1)
What do you want to do when you grow up...December 2008 (1)As Jenny walked into the consulting room it was clear that she was distraught. She was in tears before she started talking. She is about seventeen weeks into her second pregnancy. She already has a two-year old daughter. Jenny is...
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Published 8 hours ago

Turning Erin into Simon
I’ve just come across a new nursing blog. It’s seems to be tied in with the Nursing Times as it has the cumbersome title of Nurses’ Universe �" the blogging community for nursing timesI always worry that blogs like this are pseudo-blogs, there only to represent the “establishment”,...
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Published a day ago

A gallimaufry of wibble : Professor Keith Scott-Mumby MB ChB, MD, PhD, FRCP (MA)
Professor Keith Scott-Mumby MB ChB, MD, PhD, FRCP (MA) My approach to quackery is opportunistic and eclectic. Not for me the commendably rigorous approach of Ben Goldacre, Holford Watch, Dr Aust and DC’s Improbable Science. My interest is usually stirred when a patient, frequently with a Daily...
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Published 2 days ago

Officer, arrest this smirking crook
source : guidofawkes
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Published 2 days ago

Oh! Brave New Medical World
A few days ago, I wrote about the modern, protocol-driven nonsense of forcing the families of newly diagnosed young diabetics to have a psychiatric assessment. This sad state of affairs is one of the many by-products of dumbing down. A small but significant number of such families will find that...
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Published 3 days ago

More maternity madness
I thought it was an elaborate spoof in the Guardian but no, it’s for real. It’s the story of a lotus birth to Gina Cox-Roberts who is a natal hypnotherapist from Telford. What is a lotus birth? Read on."The placenta and the child came from the same cell," she says. "Her placenta was as much a...
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Published 4 days ago

Fifteen questions about political freedom
Do you know who this is, and what she is supposed to do?A member of Parliament has been arrested and detained for nine hours. Even more worryingly, it appears that the police went into the Palace of Westminster and searched his office. It is inconceivable that this act could have taken place...
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Published 4 days ago

Dying at home
The government is once again being two-faced about the care of the dying. Was it not only yesterday that they were saying that it is everyone’s “right” to die in a hospice? Now they have done yet another volte-face and are saying it’s everyone’s "right" (sic) to die at home. I have got...
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Published 6 days ago

More codswallop from the Nursing and Midwifery Council
The skills' escalatorThe nursing and midwifery council (NMC) is at it again. Last week, we looked at how it made a fool of itself by making facile pronouncements on the British National Party:Political affiliations

Following the recent publication of the membership of the British National...
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Published 7 days ago

Encouraging a lower standard of care
The Jobbing Doctor talks, with frustration, about doing a “Gordon Surgery”. In other words, his practice has jumped through the hoops to get the extra money from the government for doing extended hours.I have been doing what I will call a “Crippen” surgery for several years. I started...
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Published a week ago

The Crippen Diaries - 2008 : November (1)
What do you want to do when you grow up...November 2008 (1)I saw Amy this morning. She is 11 years old, and as bright as a button. Six weeks ago she presented looking distinctly pasty with a history of weight loss and urinary frequency. I dipped her urine to find glucose +++ and ketones +++. A...
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Published a week ago

More gutter journalism from the Taxpayers' Alliance
Gutter journalistIn a very short period of time the TPA has risen from nowhere to become a high profile pressure group. Their meteoric rise has been fuelled, not by their deeply flawed message, but by their skills in media manipulation and their unprincipled pursuit of cheap tabloid...
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Published a week ago