MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'colquhoun'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:37:49 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2703815&cid=t_116884_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D2073 Conservatives in the USA have been lying about the NHS on a massive scale. As Simon Hoggart comments today “There are few tribes more loathsome than the American right”. In the forefront has been a far-right lobby group, Conservatives for Patients’ Rights (CPR).  Even I was surprised to read in the Washington Post “The campaign is being coordinated by CRC Public Relations, the group that masterminded the “Swift boat” attacks against 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, John F. Kerry” CRC Public Relations is a conservative PR firm previously known as Creative Response Concepts. ‘Creative’ appears to mean ‘lying’, but I guess that is what PR is all about. The founder of CPR, Rick Scott, has an interesting background.... DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2703815 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:16:31 +0100 2703815 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2441303&cid=t_116884_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fgps-told-to-treat-patients-with-mystic.html Today the Daily Telegraph uses one of those expressions so beloved of ignorant journalists.GPs will be told to offer their patients the traditional Chinese practice, as well as other treatments like osteopathy and chiropracty, as an alternative to conventional remedies like exercise.Daily TelegraphNobody but nobody tells me how to do my job. I do my job according to my training and my training tells me to sift the evidence; it tells me to read the journals; it tells me to assess protocols and, if they are valid, use them as appropriate. Unlike the "health care professionals" my training occasionally tells me to ignore the protocols. Above all, my training teaches me not to harm my patients.I do not and will not refer patients forAcupuntureChiropracticHomeopathyVoodooCranial osteopathyReiki... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441303 Wed, 27 May 2009 21:24:00 +0100 2441303 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2424079&cid=t_116884_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fmore-wibble-from-prince-of-wales.html Dr Phil Hammond, Professor Wibble & Professor ColquhounOK, it's time once again to put the pencils back in the nose. The quacktitioners are out and about spreading medical wibble wherever they go.Some people will do anything for money. I was surprised to see that GP and cabaret starlet Dr Phil Hammond had lent his name and thus, by implication, provided an endorsement to HRH Prince Charles, the Quacktitioner Royal, in his latest foray into quack medicine. Phil Hammond has been chairing the First Annual Conference of the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health. Has the man got no principles? Worrying to see that sharing the table with the Prince were "Professor" Karol Sikora and Dame Carol (don't you dare call me a shit, or I will report you to the GMC) Black. What an odd collection.... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2424079 Wed, 20 May 2009 08:00:00 +0100 2424079 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2367436&cid=t_116884_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsandnsurf.medbrains.net%2F2009%2F04%2Ftoday-i-do-not-want-to-be-a-doctor%2F ‘Today I do not want to be a doctor’ is a poem by my favorite South Auckland-born medical poet, Glenn Colquhoun: Today I do not want to be a doctor. Nobody is getting any better. Those who were well are sick again and those who were sick are sicker. The dying think they will live. The healthy think they are dying. Someone [...] (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2367436 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:00:14 +0100 2367436 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1926384&cid=t_116884_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fmore-good-news-from-department-of.html Emeritus Professor of WibbleI hadn't realised, and thanks to the irrepressible David Colquhoun for telling me, that it is now possible to get a fully accredited BSc in Wibble from Thames Valley University. Full details here. Personally, I blame the malign influence of the Quacktitioner Royal who is forever promulgating this guff.Moving away from wibble, and following on from the recent debate about who should and should not be allowed to call themselves "doctor", I have received an email from a colleague down at Chertsey, who draws my attention to one of the outstanding Nurse Consultants at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey.Let's give a big NHS BLOG DOCTOR welcome to Heather Hawksley. Heather is a Consultant Nurse working in the pain clinic. At least, my colleague says she is, but checking on ... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1926384 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:22:00 +0100 1926384 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=589139&cid=t_116884_87_f&fid=34882&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbreathspakids.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F05%2Fgp-homeopath-in-bbcs-doctors-bold-idea.html A few weeks ago I complained about the depiction of tonsillitis as a life-threatening illness for children in BBC's daytime medical drama, Doctors. I thought that I'd shrugged off how annoying medical dramas can be when I learned that this same drama is about to feature a GP Homeopath.I was profoundly irritated at first and then wondered if I were jumping the gun. After all, I don't know how they will handle the storyline and homeopathy is available on the NHS in the UK. Back in January, an interesting paper in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology revealed that 60% of the 323 of the surveyed doctors' surgeries in Scotland prescribe homeopathic or herbal remedies (there was also an intriguing analysis of the demographics of the people who obtained these prescriptions and the conditi... Breath Spa for Kids blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=589139 Fri, 04 May 2007 02:14:00 +0100 589139