Always be wary of a call to do a “simple blood test”. There is no such thing. Whilst taking blood out of a vein is simple, the results are never simple and a “simple blood test” can start a chain of events, which are far from simple. The worst example is the call to...
Once upon a time people only went to the doctor when they felt sick. For most of human existence there was not much the doctor could actually do when you got there. Yet somehow the human race managed to get through to the second half of the twentieth century when...
“We do ourselves a disservice when diagnoses as wildly different as a grade 4 glioblastoma multiforme (a brain tumour that is virtually 100% fatal) and prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (a prostate condition more likely to make you pee frequently than to kill you)...
Once ideas become accepted in health it is hard to change them. Yet knowledge presses forward and what was once thought to be the case may be shown not to be. Our understanding of cancer is evolving but the system is locked into a very 1970’s approach. The overarching...
It is hard to argue with the notion of early detection of disease. After all if disease is found early it is easier to treat and the outlook is better. Hence there has been a push for more and more screening tests to be done. Whereas much trialing is done on...
