Organ donation – over my dead body!
Corporeal Appropriation Dr Christiaan Barnard Mr S___, a consultant surgeon (FRCS, Ed.) likes a good adventure. On his latest expedition, […]
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Bottled water: mineral, spring or filtered?
Think Before You Drink! Bottled water: mineral, spring or tap? Have you been duped? Have you ever been duped? Customers […]
VAT the health stealth tax
Proposed VAT Increase on Vitamins, Minerals and Fish Oil Supplements Tom was shrewd. He wanted to use his motorbike at […]
Narcolepsy, politics and swine flu vaccine
Narcolepsy and Swine Flu Vaccine: HSE Sleeping on the Job It hasn’t been a good month for vaccine manufacturers or […]
Medic nun loses faith in pharma
Teresa Forcades on Justice and Healthcare A rebel nun has lost her faith! Sr Teresa Forcades is a Spanish nun but […]
Opidemic – making a killing with painkillers
America’s Opioid Abuse Epidemic TV3, the Irish television channel, has been running a series called Doctor in the House. In March 2017 it […]
Doctor Do Harm and Doctor Death
Do-Harm Doctors Dr Gwen Adshead in her essay “The doctor’s dilemma: is it ever good to do harm?” in the Guardian suggests […]
How medical establishment fat cats cream it
The Medical Establishment Fat Cats The day before the Brexit referendum a group of French people travelled to London to […]
Unhealthy Business
Big Pharma: Unhealthy for Patients, Economy, Science and Democracy “As a MP in Nigeria, drug companies offered me houses in the […]
Evidence based medicine evidently isn’t!
Medicine Lacks an Evidence Base – Economist Professor Alan Maynard was not the first to challenge doctors, the NHS and […]
Randomised Clinical Trials: ethical? scientific?
Randomised Clinical Trials When people criticise homeopathy they are usually assuming allopathy, conventional medicine, is perfect, that it is perfectly suited […]
GlaxoSmithKline “bribed” doctors
Naughty GSK from Argentina to China via Poland, Iraq and US An article in the Daily Telegraph today by Tom Whitehead tells […]
Glaxo chief: our drugs do not work
“Our Drugs Do Not Work…” Have a laugh! The very thing sceptics have been saying about homeopathy; that it doesn’t work, […]
Cost of homeopathy “too expensive”!
Misdiagnosing the Enlightenment – a Cost for Truth After a rant by a junior doctor against homeopathy at a BMA […]
Dr Samuel Hahnemann – a life
Short Biography of Samuel Hahnemann Dr Samuel Hahnemann was a doctor and medical reformer who lived from 1755-1843. He was […]
Austerity, inequality, stress damage health
Austerity Costs Austerity, inequality, stress and poor lifestyle impact negatively on health. Two useful sources of information on the topic […]
Motor neurone disease – the politics
Having mentioned in a previous post the economics and power of motor neurone disease, I have an addition to make. […]
Motor neurone disease – the economics and the power
How many nurses does it take to give a ventilator machine (NIPPY) to a woman in respiratory failure from motor neurone […]
Best healthcare system – Singapore
While it’s easy to criticise your own and far away hills are greener, it is often posited that other countries […]
Doctor promotes mandatory vaccination!!!
Mandatory Vaccination Below is my reply to Tommy Marron, MidWest Radio who had read the letter promoting mandatory vaccination printed […]
Medical statistics – the odds are wrong
Medical statistics aren’t always what they appear – luckily for some the odds can be wrong. When a doctor tells […]
Royal London Homeopathic Hospital
Why the campaign to close the RLHH? Established in 1844 it has seen more success than statins or many other […]