Publications on Medicine generally and in the Public Interest
At its heart, Medicine is a private matter, but its impact on Society is such that other people and governments have a legitimate interest. So a question arises of how that relationship is managed. One answer is, not well.
As elsewhere, classifying publications makes for some strange neighbours. 'Medicine' here means only such aspects as are not possible to accommodate elsewhere, though those other categories are all medical anyway, in the broadest sense. Contrariwise, the topic tag 'Medicine' covers a different range of subjects - wherever the work is likely to have real application clinically. As to 'public interest', most papers are with patients in mind, definitely not governments, nor busybodies.
Guidance on Consent for the Processing and Analysis of Clinical Samples Following an Initial Consultation, Bulletin of the Royal College of Pathologists, 151 (2010) 205.
A response to the proposed prescriptive guidelines
A diagnostic laboratory must be free to do reflex testing
In their ignorance, governments and insurers have made foolish errors when seeking to limit the cost of healthcare, and should look more carefully at its real nature.
TheEssence of Medicine in Society: how to repair recent damage.
Conscientious objection in medicine. Electronic response February 2006, in respect of the paper by J. Savulescu, British Medical Journal 332 (2006) 294-7
May a doctor deny information to a patient?
Chairman’s Introduction to the Novartis conference, “Les empreintes de médécine générale sur la prise en charge des maladies chroniques”, London (2005) (12th and 19th March).
Maynard and Bloor (November 2003) argued for managerial control of medical practice but their premises are false and the conclusions therefore valueless.
Maynard and Bloor provide no evidence for their conclusions.
In its deep, unchangeable inner nature, Pathology is necessarily the same as Medicine, because together they form a single entity.
Pathology informs Medicine
In near-concordance, quasi-official bodies in Europe and the USA have defined diabetes as fasting glucose >7mmol/l.
Diabetes has been re-defined as hyperglycaemia
Multichamber container for blood or other fluid samples. GB Patent 2 282 794 B (1996). Australian Patent No 671298
Wrong Gas (‘Green for Danger’). BME ’92, Biomedical Engineering Symposium, Hong Kong, April 10-11 (1992) 75-78 (1992) 75-78 (1992) 75-78