A book review on the over-rated role of modern medicine. Title: The Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage or Nemesis? (1979) Author: Thomas McKeown Publisher: Basil Blackwell, Oxford In a book that is often grouped with Effectiveness and Efficiency (Cochrane) and Limits to...
A headline about lack of hospital beds or people missing out on care is always popular. Often statistics are used to show that certain sections of the population are getting less access to treatment than other sections. It reinforces the sense of crisis about the...
We can always learn from those who do things better. Different countries have different life expectancies and different levels of wellbeing. If we can learn what they are doing right we can improve our own health and wellbeing. It is rarely rocket science. This...
Falls are never fun. When we are young we can pretty quickly bounce back and keep going. In the elderly though a fall can lead to a hip fracture. This in turn can trigger a serious chain of events including loss of independence and even death. In the USA each year...
Whilst the search goes on to find new “scientific” ways of living better for longer, there are two very simple things that you can do today to achieve exactly this. And there are two bonuses. Last year Australian research showed, that there was a direct correlation...
