What Doctors Don't Tell YouPatients become anxious if they read about the supposedly devastating effects of dental amalgam, as when it is linked to multiple sclerosis and other serious degenerative diseases. But when they ...
New data gleaned from a 12 year inquiry into the practices at two "centres of excellence" in the UK showed that children with Down's syndrome were given a lower priority for treatment, and that th ...
From November, you have the right to see all medical records maintained about you, including what used to be classified as confidential doctor's notes. ...
Diagnosis can take away from you one of the most precious things you have: your sense of well being, of trusting your body, of being healthy without having to worry about your health. A visit to ...
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. ...
A parliamentary Bill which would have given UK patients the right to better information about the drugs they are prescribed has been blocked by members of parliament representing pharmaceutical co ...
I made a house visit to a patient with mastitis whose baby was six days old. Her GP had just been and told her she needed antibiotics. She asked him whether she might try homeopathic treatment as ...
A High Court decision has made the rights of parents to choose non emergency treatments for their children a little clearer. ...
A new declaration of patients' rights drawn up by medicine's conscience, the World Medical Association, seems to offer very little in the way of rights when the chips are down. ...
The first signs of an incipient patients' revolt against the controlled clinical trial (CCT) have begun to appear. Those are the supposedly airtight scientific studies in which patients are random ...
