What Doctors Don't Tell YouDiagnosis 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 ...
At least one doctor is less than enthusiastic about the fountain of youth hormone drug test being tested on patients over 60. Newcastle upon Tyne consultant endocrinologist Fredrick Clark is criti ...
Patients' rights have taken a step forward in Europe. The Declaration on the Promotion of Patients' Rights in Europe has been unanimously endorsed by 36 European nations, although the Department o ...
One in five hospital outpatients leaves the consultation without understanding what is wrong with him or what his treatment is going to be, according to a survey by the Consumers' Association. ...
