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Bullshit

3/10/2016

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​Recently we asked for a diabetes opinion for one of our patients.  My colleague duly arrived and asked if we’d continued a medication I had no idea that the patient was on, or even which of the new groups of diabetes meds it belonged to.  So I told him “I think so, yes” and snuck out of vision to check.  

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An Ageing Population

21/10/2015

 
​The ageing population is apparently one of the reasons the NHS is ‘under pressure’.  This paper looks at the impact of the elderly on ICU demand in the Netherlands.

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It's Amazing What They Can Do These Days!

9/11/2014

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Two papers for your perusal this month, each looking at throwing all medicine has to offer at two diseases with potentially awful outcomes – cardiac arrest and ischaemic stroke. 

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    This is a collection of blog posts written about new research or topics of interest.

    ​The posts are ordered as written, so it might make more sense to search by category below.  Failing that, to browse just click 'previous' ayty the bottom of the page and keep going.

    The opinions expressed here are those of the author (Dr P Hersey unless stated otherwise).  You may well disagree, and I certainly don't claim to be an expert or always correct in what I write.

    Conducting research is a nightmare, and any 'criticism' is made on the background of enormous respect for those who can get something from idea to publication.

    If interested, there are some articles about critical appraisal in the 'further reading' section of this website. 

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