Accountability and taking responsibility for actions is one of the, if you like, bedrocks of medical practice, certainly in private practice, and through my own journeys I do at times get asked to give opinions in medical legal matters and also assist sometimes in...
A quotation commonly attributed to Albert Einstein defines insanity as repeating the same thing multiple times while expecting a different outcome. Milton Friedman observed that, every so often, we should examine the results of policies, regardless of the good...
There is a great quote by the late economist Milton Freriedman. In fact, quite a lot of good quotes from him. I think the man was a um, a genius. But that’s beside the point. One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather...
In sport, you can tell how you or in a team sport, your team is traveling by the scoreboard. It’s not to say that winning is everything, and you can certainly enjoy playing sport for the enjoyment of playing sport. That’s a good thing. But if you want to...
Is the season of Black Friday sales. It’s interesting. Black Friday hails from the USA, the day after Thanksgiving, which we’ve had very recently. And like a lot of American trends, if you like, they do tend to spread around the world. It is interesting....
Laughter is the best medicine. Fairly old adage. Probably still has some real relevance. Um, interesting work out of the Netherlands. A single inhalation of nitrous oxide was associated with significant, rapid, and sustained improvement of treatment-resistant...