What Doctors Don't Tell YouJunior doctors in emergency departments are commonly diagnosing wrist fractures as simple sprains, according to a new UK study.
Like most bad decisions in medicine, the latest bit of madness started with an accident. A young Australian woman with a 17 month old baby asked the Key Centre for Women's Health in Victoria, Aust ...
HOSPITALS: Are we sure they're places where people go to get better?
Buried away in a British Medical Journal column quaintly entitled called "Education & Debate", giving the impression of a nice place for gentlemen to chew over the great medical issues of the day, ...
This is not the first time the government has rushed through a vaccination programme in response to a threatened epidemic. In 1976, the American government, warned by scientists that an epidemic ...
WATCH OUT: Here comes the man in the white coat
MEDICAL ERRORS: Now here's an idea. . .
If you land in hospital, demand a consultant, or failing that, a pass out the door. ...
As much as 10 per cent of patients entering hospital will experience preventable "adverse events", according to a study of two UK hospitals. ...
A recent US document published by the Institute of Medicine showed that up to 98,000 people die in the US each year due to medical error more than die in motor vehicle accidents. ...
