By: Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor, The Independent
11 December 2008
Family doctors are committing up to 600 errors a day, mainly in diagnosis and treatment, but are among the worst staff at reporting them, an NHS watchdog says today.
Family doctors are committing up to 600 errors a day, mainly in diagnosis [...]
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Family doctors ‘make 600 mistakes a day’
Posted in Editor, RISKS, Research, SORRY, tagged Doctors, health, Medical Errors on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Muslim GP faces sack over homophobic letter
Posted in Editor, GMC, Politics, Practice, SORRY, health, life, mental health, news on October 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By: Harriet Shawcross, PA, The Independent
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
A former head of the Islamic Medical Association sent a homophobic letter to a magazine for GPs, saying gay people needed the “stick of law to put them on the right path”, the General Medical Council heard today.
Dr Muhammad Siddiq was working [...]
French doctors are tried for treating children with infected growth hormone
Posted in CHILDREN, INFECTIONS, SORRY, Science, bmj, health, life, news on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BMJ 2008, 16 February
News:by Brad Spurgeon
Seven doctors and pharmacists went on trial in France last week over the death of at least 110 people who became infected with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after being given tainted human growth hormone when they were children.
The United States, Britain, and other countries halted the distribution of growth hormone [...]
GETTING IT WRONG
Posted in SORRY, bmj, chronic disease, diagnosis, health on October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the quotes of the week in August 2007 was:
“Getting it wrong, very wrong, is part of the process.”
This could be about anything medical basically, so if you want to find out what this author was on about, you have to go and look for yourself, as I couldn’t find it that quickly. BMJ [...]
DOPING IN SPORT
Posted in CHILDREN, SORRY, Science, bmj, chronic disease, health, life, news on October 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
BMJ 2007;335:618 (22 September).
Doping in sport—a warning from history.
East German athletes who were doped to win gold medals in 1976 Olympics now struggle with chronic health problems.
Sport is tough, mean, and uncompromising.
The German Democratic Republic looked coldly at what was required and did it. Potential medal winners were selected at an early age for [...]
SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD FOR DOCTORS
Posted in ELTON JOHN, SORRY, bmj, health, life on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
William Sellar makes it easier for us to say sorry
BMJ Career Focus 2007;335:95-96 15 September 2007
Doctors are often thought of as being incapable of apologising. On occasions when we are conscious of the need to apologise, we may feel embarrassed out of fear of losing face or worry that admitting to a mistake may lead [...]
