It seems 2011 is the year of “Beware The Physician On Social Media”. There’s a lot of stuff flying around. Doctor Tweeps have made degrading jokes about their patients and been outed. A comprehensive survey of Physicians on Twitter demonstrated that 3% of Tweets were unprofessional, either profane or identifying patients. Both Australian/New Zealand […]
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Celiac Disease? Take 15 Hookworms and call me in the morning
July 3, 2011 by
The hygiene hypothesis has got a lot to answer for. Feeding worms to experimental subjects for one. How did the hygiene hypothesis start? From one of the most boring specialties in science – statistics (no mail please). It was the epidemiologists who first alerted us that children in developing countries, and even in eastern European […]
They Are Not Ripe Yet
April 11, 2011 by
I used to think ‘Sour Grapes’ was just a metaphor. Now I’m not so sure. I blame it on an article in a European journal, obscurely titled “XYZ – Nondum Matura Es” The XYZ is irrelevant, you can substitute ‘Atomic powered trains” or “ESP as a communication tool”, that part makes no difference, it’s the […]
Mental Illness Is A Metaphor
March 27, 2011 by
When I was a young man, working through a medical course in the 1960s, there were 10,000 psychiatric beds in the State of Victoria. That is, in a population of about 3 million. Now our population has doubled and the number of psychiatric beds has fallen by about 80%. We spent weeks and weeks’ as […]
As Though They Had Been Flooded With Light
March 17, 2011 by
When Mikhail Bulgakov died in 1940, at the same age and of the same kidney ailment as his father, his works effectively died with him. The Great Soviet Experiment did not encourage wide release of his plays and novels; indeed, it was only in 1966, a generation after its near completion, that his most-loved, most-famous […]
