Stop blaming doctors for antibiotic abuse
According to the World Health Organisation’s latest report into antibiotic resistance we are facing a ‘problem so serious that it threatens the achievements of modern medicine… A post-antibiotic era,...
View ArticleIt’s up to each woman to decide whether the pill’s benefits are worth the risks
According to a new paper published in the journal Cancer Research women taking combined oral contraceptive pills (COCP) have a 50 per cent increased risk of developing breast cancer. Frightening stuff...
View ArticleUterine transplantation is the final gynaecological frontier
The successful transplantation of a uterus represents the last major surgical goal in the field of reproductive gynaecology. This feat has recently been achieved by a team at the University of...
View ArticleOverpaid, underworked, ineffectual – the myth of the NHS doctor
Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_15082013.m4a GPs enjoy the salary of bankers, regularly pulling in £100,000 for a five-day week, with no on-call or weekend duties and a lovely...
View ArticleCriminalising mothers: the beginning of the slippery slope
The recent case reported in the press of a 17 year old mother who deliberately binge drank alcohol during her pregnancy, resulting in a baby with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and who now stands...
View ArticleSurgical league tables: no, thank you
After the Bristol Heart Scandal in the 1990’s, the speciality of cardiac surgery rose to the occasion, leading the way in publishing individual surgeon’s mortality figures and self-audit, which made it...
View ArticleWhen the NHS is treated like a religion, is it any wonder whistleblowers are...
I will start by publicly apologising to Professor Meirion Thomas; in a moment of folly, I erroneously signed a petition decrying his alleged ‘disrespect’ of colleagues, in the wake of one of his...
View ArticleObesity a disability? Only lawyers will benefit from the ECJ’s farcical...
Real disability is humbling for those who have to live with it and those who care for the disabled. A true disability — degenerative neurological disease, for instance — involves the equivalent of a...
View ArticleMost doctors seem to time-travel to the 1800s when it comes to nutrition
For over 30 years, dietary fat has been seen as a major cause of heart attacks, strokes and cancer. This has been a health catastrophe. Ancel Keys’s ‘Seven Countries’ study, first published in 1970,...
View ArticleWhy GPs are the London cabbies of the NHS
GPs are the very personification of the description ‘jack of all trades, master of none’. Following so-called ‘specialist’ training, they emerge as the ultimate generalists, requiring additional input...
View ArticleHormone ‘halves risk of premature birth,’ says the Mail. But its report is...
As a gynaecologist, I was appalled to read this story about a supposedly ‘groundbreaking’ treatment to stop premature births in the Mail (I read it on the online Mail site but in fact the culprit is...
View ArticleCameron’s seven-day GP service is a mad promise straight out of ‘Yes, Prime...
I love the series Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister for many reasons, among them the timeless, elegant dialogue that can be applied to today’s politics. Hearing the pledge emanating from Number 10...
View ArticleStop blaming doctors for antibiotic abuse
According to the World Health Organisation’s latest report into antibiotic resistance we are facing a ‘problem so serious that it threatens the achievements of modern medicine… A post-antibiotic era,...
View ArticleIt’s up to each woman to decide whether the pill’s benefits are worth the risks
According to a new paper published in the journal Cancer Research women taking combined oral contraceptive pills (COCP) have a 50 per cent increased risk of developing breast cancer. Frightening stuff...
View ArticleUterine transplantation is the final gynaecological frontier
The successful transplantation of a uterus represents the last major surgical goal in the field of reproductive gynaecology. This feat has recently been achieved by a team at the University of...
View ArticleOverpaid, underworked, ineffectual – the myth of the NHS doctor
Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_15082013.m4a GPs enjoy the salary of bankers, regularly pulling in £100,000 for a five-day week, with no on-call or weekend duties and a lovely...
View ArticleCriminalising mothers: the beginning of the slippery slope
The recent case reported in the press of a 17 year old mother who deliberately binge drank alcohol during her pregnancy, resulting in a baby with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and who now stands...
View ArticleSurgical league tables: no, thank you
After the Bristol Heart Scandal in the 1990’s, the speciality of cardiac surgery rose to the occasion, leading the way in publishing individual surgeon’s mortality figures and self-audit, which made...
View ArticleWhen the NHS is treated like a religion, is it any wonder whistleblowers are...
I will start by publicly apologising to Professor Meirion Thomas; in a moment of folly, I erroneously signed a petition decrying his alleged ‘disrespect’ of colleagues, in the wake of one of his...
View ArticleObesity a disability? Only lawyers will benefit from the ECJ’s farcical...
Real disability is humbling for those who have to live with it and those who care for the disabled. A true disability — degenerative neurological disease, for instance — involves the equivalent of a...
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