I have been a doctor for over 40 years, and I can truthfully say I have seen only one miracle.
Continue readingMERS-CoV – another public health threat?
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the information that as of 3 June 2015,
Continue readingTake two aspirins and (don’t) ring me in the morning!
The medical “advice” to take two aspirins and ring again in the morning has been around for many years.
Continue readingAdvances in Surgery – our thanks to who?
Surgeons can be the ‘prima donnas’ of medicine, if you like. It is the surgeons who get the headlines in the newspapers.
Continue readingMayday Mayday Mayday!
I was reminded of the famous distress call Mayday Mayday Mayday when I sat down to write this item a few days after May 1
Continue readingLooking after “her indoors”!
If you come from the UK you will understand the reference to “her indoors”. An often used name for one’s wife.
Continue readingCounting Sheep
Have you ever fallen asleep at your desk? More than once? Regularly?
Continue readingBreast Cancer
I was reading some clinical reports on death rates for women. Breast cancer is the commonest cancer of women
Continue readingSlip me some giggle juice!
The advances in surgery in the past 150 years have come, not through surgical technique, but on anesthetics.
Continue readingSilly Phyllis season?
Valentines Day is here again, and once more the do-gooders will be issuing warnings (and even condoms?) to love-sick swains.
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