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<title>Tom Nolan on how to kiss during a flu pandemic</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The first cases of H1N1 infection resistant to oseltamivir (Tamiflu) spreading from person-to-person were found in Wales last week. The spread of the resistant strain occurred at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff and all five people affected have “severe underlying health conditions”...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/NJQTW2wNIh8" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:07:39 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Tension pneumatocoele in a child with an empyema</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[In this concise and well written case report the authors raise an important question.  Could vaccination be causing serotypic drift result in more severe infections as the general population become exposed to unseen serotypes of S.pneumonia
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:58:30 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Siddhartha Yadav reminisces about his BMJ Clegg Scholarship</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The BMJ has now called for applications for the Clegg Scholarship 2010. So, I think this might be the right time to talk about my own experiences as a Clegg Scholar and how I have fared since then.
If you ask me to name one thing that Clegg Scholarship is all about, I can’t. I [...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/auaGnFa1LQs" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:32:58 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Tony Delamothe: The Ethics of Assisted Dying - Lord Harries’s lecture</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Because the House of Commons won’t touch end of life issues with a bargepole the House of Lords is the place to watch.
So I went to hear the inaugural Elson Ethics Lecture,  given by Lord Richard  Harries of Pentregarth, on the ethics of assisted dying.(Held at Windsor Castle, we entered via the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/ohwoMk28Pk0" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:32:47 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Richard Smith on learning leadership from Henry V</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last week I was privileged to hear a brilliant talk—by Nicholas Janni—on what Henry V or rather Shakespeare has to teach us about leadership.
Prince Harry was, as most people know, a dissolute youth, hanging out with drunks, pimps, whores, and undesirables with the great Falstaff chief among them....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/CEjvKpiqADg" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:41:52 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Nursing by Degree</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, the government announced that, from 2013, all nursing staff would have to be graduates.  ”Degree-level education,” said Health Minister for England Ann Keen,
will provide new nurses with the decision-making skills they need to make high-level judgements in the transformed...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/65Oua2cRXGE" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:20:13 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Emily Spry: The devil is in the detail</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[It might seem odd that the most challenging folk to work with here are not the Sierra Leonean ones.  Sometimes the toughest part is dealing with the endeavours of my fellow “whiteman”.
“Development” can be a painful business.  It’s painful because of the contrast between what is promised and what...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/98iH9k3_-2o" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:10:51 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Douglas Noble on patient safety</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ineffectively communicated clinical information has been estimated to be responsible for up to 10% of all preventable medical errors.  Stanton et al, in their recent book on clinical leadership, reveal that 70% of information is communicated non-verbally.
Whatever way it’s delivered to us, vast...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/0KsOtKWEAs8" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:10:44 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Domhnall Macauley: Of mice and real people</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Do you dither with your mouse? Who would have thought there could be any new angles on consultation analysis! Simon DeLusignon (St Georges, University of London) had some new insights in his keynote address at NAPCRG (North American Primary Care Research Group). Linking three way video and computer...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/ZTRG8Gcqh-w" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:24:33 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Conference report: Conscientious Objection Workshop</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[On the 23rd of October I attended a workshop at Keele University (where I am based) focused on the topic of Conscientious Objection. This is a topic which I have some interest in (in 2001 I wrote a short dissertation on the topic within the context of euthanasia) however this workshop interestingly...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/hZcR6B3qOjQ" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:59:12 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Annabel Bentley: Evidence of drugs and alcohol down the pub</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[A debate on the harms of drugs and alcohol hosted in a pub - surely not?
This week I was lucky enough to visit the epicentre of drinking and critical thinking at what claims to the be the world’s largest regular pub meeting.  An open invitation to join a garrulous group of sceptics at a forum [...]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/5UnRrwIPB7I" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:07:15 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Behrooz Astaneh: Trial registry - the Iranian experience</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Clinical trials are the cornerstone of medical research. Multiple publications of the results of a specific trial as well as non-publication of unfavorable results are among the problems facing the medical literature. To avoid such problems, the idea of trial registries has been proposed, and...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/-h2Tqw24uhA" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:43:02 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Tony Waterston: Making the connection between education and practice … and a pipe band in Bethlehem</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Attending the graduation ceremony for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Child Health Diploma programme in Ramallah I fantasised over the effect of the course on children’s health. We want to see the following: thriving, well nourished infants, lively and independent minded children,...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/JcsmISJUWrA" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:42:56 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Does Medicine - and Medical Ethics - have a Pro-Life Bias?</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[There’s an essay by Diego Gracia called “Palliative Care and the Historical Background” that I frequently use in classes about Care ethics, and there’s a passage in it that always gets a fascinating reaction from students.  In this passage, Gracia claims that
the true goal of medicine has always...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/IiGBBO6Fyug" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:21:25 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Parijaat Vaidya reviews When a mother’s love is not enough</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[As the mother of a severely disabled child and a psychiatrist working with learning disabled children, I was particularly interested in this BBC documentary which highlights the enormous challenges families face in bringing up a child with disabilities.
Presented by Rosa Monckton, mother of a girl...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/mQlfUo5AqY0" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:33:33 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Bev Collin on priorities for tackling malnutrition</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[With the World Food Summit happening this week in Rome, and thinking about my experience of working in the field of malnutrition, two very strong images came to mind.
First, rewind 17 years to September 1992, to a feeding centre in Baidoa, Somalia. This was one of the most devastating humanitarian...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/VT6A0hvR_Cw" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:17:21 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Andrew Rouse and Tom Marshall: Informed consent, the doctor and H1N1 immunisation</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[How does a doctor obtain informed consent for H1N1 immunisation consistent with General Medical Council guidance? The Department of Health’s guidance does not provide sufficient information for this.  This is our attempt to rectify this omission, providing information required for informed consent...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/P7YJz9IoRmU" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:17:14 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Domhnall Macauley on unexpected outcomes</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[You have got to do something. Young mothers and their babies living in socially deprived areas do poorly. Isolated, unprepared, and hard to reach; the obvious way to help is through their peers. Why bother with research. It’s obvious. Just implement it.  
But, it didn’t work, and worse. At the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/WGTA5go4VFA" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:43:04 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Vidhya Alakeson on Medicaid</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Medicaid is typically thought of as the health insurance program for the poor. But when it was created in the 1960s, it was designed to cover only three low income groups: parents and children, older adults and individuals with disabilities. Single adults without a disability and without dependent...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/6-OWkhcPUj0" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:07:14 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Knowing the Enemy in the “War on Drugs”</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[If you’re going to fight a war, you need to know whom you’re fighting.  You also could do with knowing when to stop fighting.  Johann Hari is eloquent in this piece on the so-called “war on drugs”: the time to stop is now.
Yes, it is shocking that he was ditched for pointing out the mathematical...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/K3KycLg9I8c" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:10:31 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>David Payne on hypoxia, Everest-style</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Dan Martin undresses in 20-knot winds beneath the Everest summit to prepare for a femoral artery blood sample and muscle biopsy while a team of sherpas look on, entertained by what they see. The critical care anaesthetist and his three colleagues ended up on the top of the world’s highest peak two...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/DJ0fijI-Um8" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:41:32 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Emergency Department Initiation</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[My eagerly anticipated placement in the Emergency Department is about to begin.  It is 7 o’clock in the morning, I am a bleary eyed and apprehensive as I make my entrance into the department for the first time.  A central nurse/doctor station is surrounded by rows of curtained cubicles through...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/hacIdniYpaE" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:34:13 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Sudden onset proptosis secondary to cavernous sinus thrombosis from underlying mandibular dental infection</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[This case describes a relatively unusual cause of cavernous sinus thrombosis which is one of those conditions that is ideal for educationally combining applied anatomy and pathology. The report is clear and educational and is an important reminder of a rare but devastating condition.
Sudden onset...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/lDAl0vid7v8" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:16:05 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Harry Brown on electronic communications with patients</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Patient and doctor interactions are one of the cornerstones of medical care and with the advent of modern technology, there is now more than one way for doctors and patients to communicate with each other. With the rise of the mobile phone, instant two way communication has become even easier. I...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/kNwcoeYMibY" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:48:18 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Mary E Black on flu suits and holy water dispensers</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Plagues create business opportunities and the worried well in any era present a commercial opportunity. In the Middle Ages, the Black Death and the Great Plague saw brisk sales in fumigators, herbal remedies, and the plague suit - predecessor of the DuPont TK555T HazMat suit, and equally unsettling...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/n_xsXIkh9q0" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:12:49 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>“Ethics” and PEA Soup to Link</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Reproduced from the PEA Soup blog:
We are very pleased to announce a new partnership between PEA Soup and the distinguished journal, Ethics.  In addition to our regular postings, PEA Soup’s editors will select one article from each issue of Ethics to be the focus of a featured discussion on our...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/-vu5mMTH3sE" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:17:17 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>David Nutt Speaks</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Damn.  I thought I’d published this a couple of weeks ago.  Anyway…
David Nutt tells his side of the cannabis sacking story in The Guardian, based on a longer piece here.
A sample - or, if you will, a ‘teenth:
What we can say is that cannabis use is associated with an increased experience of...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/KYkVKAkU84A" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:06:38 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Peter Lapsley: Degrees of care</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[There have been mixed messages from the Patients Association in response to the announcement of plans for nursing in England to become an all-graduate profession. Writing in The Times on 12 November, the Association’s director, Katherine Murphy, said the move had “sent out all the wrong messages,...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/qkaOyug068Y" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:07:04 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Frances Dixon on medical professionalism</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[I was flicking through my Student BMJ the other day when I came across an article on Medical Professionalism. This is a subject that I have been thinking about recently, mainly as we have just had the first of our “Personal & Professional Development” sessions at medical school.
Being a medical...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/sKuApDkA1CI" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:04:19 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Andrew Potter on not taking the swine flu vaccine</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Increasing numbers of clinical staff at the hospital where I work declined invitations to be vaccinated against pandemic “swine” influenza. I think this is a worrying trend for both public health reasons and for the doctor’s integrity as a medical practitioner. There have also been reports in the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/wGJ_vl4FtZg" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:21:10 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Ohad Oren: Routine operation, impeccable performance</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[“Bring sac close to peritoneum, drain its purulent liquid content, and have the shrunken pouch squeezed through this tiny hole.” Such was the senior surgeon’s instruction at the conclusion of a gallbladder removal operation. After the laparoscopic resection of an infected gallbladder, which went as...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/bJ2ci9JZvNs" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:55:55 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Tom Nolan: New pandemic flu guidelines - don’t forget your oximeter</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[New guidelines on the management of pandemic H1N1 influenza were published recently by the Department of Health. They include guidelines on when to refer patients to hospital (see below) and an update on the epidemiology of the disease: fewer than 1% of cases are admitted to hospital; 12-15% of...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/XLkM01yr2C8" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:51:26 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Peter Lapsley: Please tick the box!</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Some things never seem to change. I spent much of the ten years during which I ran the Skin Care Campaign (SCC) explaining patiently to the government and to pharmacists that, where topical treatments for skin diseases are concerned, generic substitution can present serious problems. That was not...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/Q5pK-Ijw68Q" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:30:58 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Louise Kenny on paraquat poisoning</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The night before last, one of the other doctors admitted a 22 year old male who had ingested concentrated paraquat whilst intoxicated.  At the time of admission he was 24 hours post ingestion and his presenting complaint was pain in his mouth and throat due to chemical burns.  The night shift...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/2K_6tW99rac" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:30:18 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Liz Wager on Einstein, David Nutt, and academic freedom</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[I’m just back from Washington DC, where we held the first US meeting of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics). Engraved onto the building housing part of the National Academy of Sciences is a quote from Einstein which could serve as the COPE motto if we had one. It reads: “The right to search...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/8uiXV8kbvZU" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:10:49 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Richard Smith on assessing health technology assessment</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The budget of Britain’s Health Technology Assessment programme has grown from £13m in 2006 to £88m in 2010, and it has conducted a swathe of trials on new technologies, published dozens of papers, and supported a study that won the BMJ paper of the year. But could it do even better? This was the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/Eke2F_pFPSM" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:13:49 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Progress in Medicine Conference</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Bristol, 13-15 April.
The aims of this conference are:
To examine the nature, scope, causes, and grounds of progress in medicine.
To provide a forum for developing the unified study of the history and philosophy of medicine, and in particular raising the profile of the philosophy of medicine in the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/sGRUfmChAYg" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:36:46 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Richard Smith: Rethinking priorities in global health</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last week’s conference to launch Edinburgh University’s Global Health Academy left me thinking that priorities in global health may be very wrong.
David Molyneaux from Liverpool said that an alien observing earth for the first time would think that it had only three diseases: AIDS, TB, and malaria....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/BVGr9Hp6nMA" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:11:26 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Emily Spry on ER in the Pikin Hospital</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[I am happy and exhausted at the end of the first week of the new Triage system and Emergency Room at the Children’s Hospital.  Around 80 children present to the hospital each day and Triage nurses now briefly assess them and rush those with Emergency signs to the new 3-bedded ER.  There they are...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/WRh7eViSRZg" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:11:11 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Carmi Z Margolis on global health education</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[When he first entered the spacious great room, a colleague exclaimed: “What an amazing place! I’ve always wanted to come to Bellagio! How did you do it?” I imagine most of our conference participants had similar thoughts. The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference Centre, situated on the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/group/blogs/~4/eqE-Tle4BZk" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:09:45 +0000</pubDate>

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