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 'dishonesty'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:23:49 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5130651&cid=t_175429_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F15%2Fthrough-the-looking-glass%2F Title: Through the looking glass Scan or click to download 'Through the looking glass' The Skinny: Report from the thinktank Demos suggesting that key priorities tackling child poverty and youth unemployment; supporting parents at key transition points in their children’s development; and encouraging positive relationships with peers short form the basis of government strategy to deal with youth issues, particularly those to do with girls. The report identifies that British teenage girls experience worse rates of binge drinking, worse levels of physical inactivity and more frequent incidences of teen pregnancy than their European counterparts andevidence that twice as many teenage girls as teenage boys suffer from ‘teen angst’. Publisher: Demos Published: April 2011 Size: 1... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5130651 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:53:14 +0100 5130651 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4498259&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F02%2Fface-of-postmodern-medicine-lying.html .Lying with a smile. This alleged physician seems to have no qualms with lying, in writing medical "out sick notes" for political purposes. Click to play video.If this person is truly a physician, I cannot condone such behavior, that is, lying about clinical matters to suit one's own agenda, whatever that agenda might be.I saw too much of that when I worked for the regional transit authority's medical department in a large city. Community physicians lied about injuries to support continued, fraudulent "therapy" (from which the physician - and the involved attorney - profited), and to support continued receipt of worker's compensation by the employees.Example: months of treatment for back "strain and sprain and myofasciitis" from a 30,000-lb bus (excluding passengers!) being rear ended by a... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4498259 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:27:00 +0100 4498259 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4168015&cid=t_175429_109_f&fid=38950&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shockmd.com%2F2010%2F11%2F15%2Fnarcissism-and-academic-dishonesty%2F Academic dishonesty is any type of cheating that occurs in relation to a formal academic exercise. Examples are: Plagiarism: The adoption or reproduction of original creations of another author (person, collective, organization, community or other type of author, including anonymous authors) without due acknowledgment. Fabrication: The falsification of data, information, or citations in any formal academic exercise. Deception: Providing false information to an instructor concerning a formal academic exercise—e.g., giving a false excuse for missing a deadline or falsely claiming to have submitted work. Excellence in academics is highly valued in our societies. It delivers power, status, privileges and appreciation. It could also challenge narcissists because they are depended on power a... Dr Shock MD PhD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4168015 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:36:44 +0100 4168015 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3965501&cid=t_175429_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedblitz.com%2F%7E%2F20639460%2F0%2Fneuromarketing%7EWear-a-Fake-Rolex-Turn-Into-OJ.htm You can find fake designer and luxury products just about anywhere these days, and most people consider owning one a harmless transgression. After all, if you were never going to pay $12,000 for a real Rolex, who is really hurt if you wear a fake that cost you $30? Rolex didn’t really lose [...] CommentsBut your brain doesn't always know it knows! Good point, ... by Roger DooleyThe brain has an error detection mechanism that registers when ... by David Krueger MD (Source: Neuromarketing) Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3965501 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:27:32 +0100 3965501 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3790927&cid=t_175429_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Frecoveryissexy.com%2Fstools-and-bottles-2%2F The booklet Stools and Bottles uses the concept of a barstool (the seat and three legs) and eight bottles to represent the importance of the first four steps (of the Twelve Steps) of Alcoholics Anonymous. The author began using this concept in a prior book called The Little Red Book and it got so popular that the concept was expanded into its own book. The Stool The author begins the book by talking about the “seat” of the stool. The seat, by itself, is “as useless, incomplete, and undependable as the shaky alcoholic it upholds”. For the seat to function, it needs three legs to uphold it, just like the alcoholic needs the first three steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) for support. The author says that the three legs represent the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of reco... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3790927 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:58:00 +0100 3790927 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3254416&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fgordon-brown-to-refuse-elderly-patients.html Just a minute, that's a misleading headline. That's not what our beloved Prime Minister said. THIS is what he said:People aged over 65 could be given up to six weeks' support to enable them to remain in their own homes after a stay in hospital or residential care, or a fall or an illness, Gordon Brown said today. The prime minister said the plan forms part of the government's ambition to build a National Care Service, but details of how it might be funded would have to await a forthcoming white paper. It could benefit tens of thousands of people who end up in care when, with the proper support, they could stay at home for longer, said Brown. The government's personal care at home bill, currently going through parliament, already includes plans to extend rights to support to an estimated 28... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3254416 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:43:00 +0100 3254416 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2871751&cid=t_175429_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F10%2F07%2Fdo-czech-teens-lie-online%2F Do Czech teens lie about themselves and their lives on their blogs? A new research study suggests the answer may surprise you — generally, “No.” In a survey of 113 teens, ages 13 to 17 years old, researchers discovered that when presenting personal information such as their age, gender, and place of residence, teens were generally pretty truthful in their blogs: Generally, the level of dishonesty was low, with young adolescents tending to lie more often about their interests. Public topics (school and life) had the most truthful answers, whereas the least truthful answers concerned intimate topics (family life, partnership). This flies in the face of some people’s previous opinions that a lot of people exaggerate or lie outright on their blogs. At least when it co... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2871751 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:57:28 +0100 2871751 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2556110&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fgordon-brown-admits-that-labour-health.html Mr & Mrs Tyler are on holidayA brilliant bit of bile from the DK.There is a serious point, though. There usually is when the DK is bilious. The point is quite straight forward. The government is to recruit, and finance, 100,000 personal private tutors to supplement the education system.Personal f.ing tutors? I though that the education system under NuLabour was the best in the known world—what the hell do you need personal tutors for? Unless, of course, you have bollocksed up the education system which then begs the question—why the bloody hell do you think you'll be able to run a system of personal tutors, using yet more money that we don't have?The Devil's KitchenQuite. But it does not stop there.The government has also instructed PCTs to fund private health care for any patient ... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2556110 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:17:00 +0100 2556110 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2469489&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fbalancing-nhs-budget.html …the NHS in England is set to run up a substantial surplus, for the second year running. Public health campaigners say it represents a fantastic opportunity for the health service to invest in innovative services to improve health.November 2008-the NHS has returned to financial balance, delivering a surplus of £510 million in 2006/07, and is on course to achieve a surplus in 2007/08.'June 2008All very encouraging you may think but then, suddenly:A report by NHS managers warns the health service will face the worst and most severe and sustained financial shortfall in its history after 2011. How should the NHS be funded?

The BBC has learned the NHS in England is facing a real-terms reduction of between £8 and 10bn in its budget over the three years after 2011.June 2009What is going ... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2469489 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:41:00 +0100 2469489 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2405139&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fcorruption-dishonesty-fraud-and-cover.html Professor Allyson PollockThe proper and productive use of public money is an indispensable element of any modern, well managed, and fully accountable democratic state. The evaluation and monitoring of a contract between the public and the private sector should be relatively straightforward—payment given for services rendered—but our analysis raises four main issues, which are supported by other commentators:First, lack of access to data... Second, incompleteness of data...Third, in this instance the contract…departed radically from normal reporting and costing…Fourth, the government’s failure to release the value for money methodology means that the claim has no basis in evidence… Professor Allyson PollockProfessor Pollock might be talking about MPs expenses. In fact she has ... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2405139 Sun, 10 May 2009 15:41:00 +0100 2405139 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2380787&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Falice-miles-shit-in-times-2.html Alice MilesMrs Crippen got back from work shortly after nine this evening. She had phoned ahead and told us to get on with supper without her.  She settled down to a glass of white wine and the Times. Within minutes she was fuming at an extraordinarily vindictive tirade from Alice Miles. Vindictive and dishonest.Doctors are highly paid and comparatively underworked; much of the NHS is a haven of calm compared with the average British secondary school. Doctors face nothing like the daily barrage of demands that a teacher faces.OK, well, doctors are relatively well paid. No argument there. But “underworked”? Hospitals a “haven of calm” compared to schools?  Spend a day in an MAU in any hospital in the country, then spend the night in the A & E department and see if you change y... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2380787 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:27:00 +0100 2380787 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2347981&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Flabour-partys-answer-to-jeffrey-archer.html News of the World"The Prime Minister has accepted Mr McBride's resignation. Neither he nor anybody else in Downing Street had knowledge of these emails. It is the Prime Minister's view that there is no place in politics for the dissemination or publication of material of this kind, which is why it is right that Mr McBride and Mr Draper decided not to publish this material."Earlier in the day, ex Home Secretary Charles Clarke blasted McBride, saying he had brought shame to the Labour party, adding: "Damian McBride has no place in Downing Street."News of the World via GuidoLet us not forget that McBride was working in Downing Street. He had a senior position. He was conspiring with Draper to launch a viscious smear campaign against Conservative Shadow Cabinet Members and, to boot, Samantha C... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2347981 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:15:00 +0100 2347981 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2347982&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fanother-blog-triumph.html Another triumph for Guido.The appalling Damien McBride has been utterly discredited and, any second now, will be falling on his sword.Those not interested in political rough-and-tumble may not have been following Guido’s remorseless pursuit of these appalling Labour Party apparatchiks. The main stream media has, as always, tried to stay aloof from what they have dismissed as a internecine blog war between Guido, Iain Dale and Derek Draper.  It was far more than that. Derek Draper was dishonest with an overinflated c.v. but both he and Damien McBride had the Prime Minister’s ear. McBride was playing a major role in an underhand Labour Party smear campaign that was to be directed, with Draper's help, against leading members of the Conservative Party. And Nadine DorriesThe power of the i... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2347982 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:10:00 +0100 2347982 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2081033&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F01%2Fdetoxification-fraud.html Christmas and New Year has, as usual, been a prolonged period of general excess; too much rich food; too much booze; too many high calorie snacks. Wherever you are, wherever you turn, there seems to be an open box of biscuits or chocolates which, for eleven and a half months of the year, you would not touch.We took the tree and the cards down last night and normal service has been resumed. The feeling of excess is replaced by a craving for cornflakes, beans on toast and iced water.This is a great time of year for the nutritionists and other quacks to start flogging their dubious wares. The purveyors of colonic lavage will be busy. I’ve taken a couple of days off work this week. Luxury. Pure luxury. The BBC Radio 4 TODAY programme is much more enjoyable when one is not going to work. I wa... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2081033 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:42:00 +0100 2081033 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1998876&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fofficer-arrest-this-smirking-crook.html source : guidofawkes (Source: NHS Blog Doctor) NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1998876 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:20:00 +0100 1998876 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1968735&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fcarole-malone-dishonest-androgynous.html Carole Malone : before make overWas it only last June, shortly before I took a prolong blogging break, that I wrote:Sunday evening. Time for bed, really. My daughter, who is in the middle of “A” levels, comes in about 10.00 o’clock after a brief visit to boyfriend. She brought with her page 21 from today’s News of the World. Difficult to describe my daughter's manner – somewhere between angry, amused and upset. The article on page 21 is by someone called Carole Malone. I have never heard of Carole Malone but was distressed to find after a little Googling that she is a mate of Dr Rants. Malone is an androgynous looking, peri-menopausal, dishonest ex-lard bucket married to a much younger Polish gentleman. This much I glean from Google. I have not yet moved on to abuse. Today, Carol... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1968735 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:40:00 +0100 1968735 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1634840&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F07%2Fsomething-wicked-this-way-comes-getting.html No more of this on the NHSThe recent publicity surrounding a patient’s “right” to die at home has left experienced family doctors perplexed. What is going on? A myth has grow-up that so called “terminal care”, sorry, sorry, “continuing care” is a mystical science that can only be practised in hospices by Macmillan nurses.One of the most fundamental roles of the family doctor is to care for dying patients in the home environment. All the older partners in my practice are highly experienced in this task, aided by our excellent team of district nurses. As I have said many times before, the pure physical medical side of terminal care is rarely challenging. The mental and emotional side is very challenging and, as I get older, I find it more and more of a strain. (see Removing dea... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1634840 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:46:00 +0100 1634840 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1575386&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F07%2Fdeath-from-diphtheria.html Princess Alice of HesseIn November of 1878, tragedy struck Alice's home. Her eldest daughter Victoria came down with diphtheria, and the girl's fever was extremely high. Four days later, Alice sent her mother a telegram stating another daughter, Alix, had also contacted the disease, and it appeared the child would die. Not soon after, May also became ill. Eventually all the children with the exception of Ella were infected with diphtheria. As it turned out, all but little May pulled through. The disease had resulted in a painful choking death for the little girl. Alice kept the news of May's death a secret from the others for as long as she could. Eventually the children started to question their mother about May's absence, and she finally confessed that their sister was dead. Ernie, still... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1575386 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:11:00 +0100 1575386 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1543090&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F06%2Ffree-50-notes.html What have the following got in common? :A “free” cheque for £50A chronic disabling illnessA Mercedes CLK sports car.No, it’s not a question from the Round Britain Quiz. This is about Government sleaze. Sleaze of the worst kind. Profligate waste of taxpayers’ money. Underhand target fiddling. Dishonesty. It’s all there, and it has been unearthed by Mary, who has a chronic disabling illness.Mary was thrilled and then bemused and then baffled by an offer of a “free” £50 payment for signing a few documents and returning them to Remploy. Fortunately, Mary is one of those irritatingly honest people who does not take things at face value. Read her story here.Mary's Remploy story is then followed up by Wat Tyler at Burning our Money who reveals all about the Mercedes CLK, and the s... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1543090 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:32:00 +0100 1543090 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1526054&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F06%2Fgerry-northam-inflammatory-disreputable.html Gerry Northam : inflammatory, disreputable & dishonestFollowing on from the two posts below (Looking after patients with dementia (1) and Looking after patients with dementia (2) ) on the use of anti-psychotics in treating patients with dementia, a student nurse has kindly unearthed the full Medix report which was prepared for Gerry Northam and his scurrilous File on Four programme. (Listen again here) I have just read it in full. I now say this:Gerry Northam is a dishonest, disreputable journalist. If journalism were a real profession he would be struck off. He has grossly and deliberately misrepresented data to produce his inflammatory report. His criticisms of GPs are monstrously inaccurate. Those who have listened to the programme know that Northam put great emphasis on the suggest... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1526054 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:44:00 +0100 1526054 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1499874&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F06%2Fpretty-polly-toynbee-is-looking-after.html Polly Toynbee at restWhen I started NHS BLOG DOCTOR a couple of years ago, I soon came across the DK, the ageing Greek and Tim Worstall.  All three seemed mysteriously unified in their hatred of Polly Toynbee. As Polly increasingly frequently turns her champagne socialist hand to the NHS I begin to understand why she was so disliked. Today, she has produced a tendentiously headlined concatenation of half truths, misrepresentations and down right lies about GPs.Don't be fooled: this doctors' protest is all about profits, not patientsGPs are fighting the new polyclinics for the same reason they refused to join the NHS 60 years ago: to protect their business (Polly Toynbee)Let’s take a rational look at Polly’s article.The British Medical Association has declared war on the government. N... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1499874 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:11:00 +0100 1499874 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1426279&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F05%2Fnadine-dorries-and-20-weeks-campaign.html Nadine Dorries MPThe 20 Weeks Campaign was launched yesterday by Nadine DorriesNadine Dorries MP will on Tuesday launch the official parliamentary campaign to reduce the upper limit for abortion from 24 weeks to 20 weeks when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is debated in the Commons later this month. Nadine will publish a briefing paper, '20 Reasons for 20 Weeks' outlining the case for cutting the present 24-week limit to 20 weeks. (20 Weeks Campaign)Dr Crippen is in favour of reducing the abortion foetal age limit from 24 to 20 weeks - save only for catastrophic foetal abnormality and genuine threat to the mother’s life. I could not contemplate facilitating an abortion at, say, 23 weeks for purely social reasons.So why will I not be jumping on the Nadine Dorries bandwagon?Na... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1426279 Wed, 07 May 2008 09:24:00 +0100 1426279 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1370715&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fsweet-dreams-of-patricia.html I am not an economist. Well, actually, I did do economics “A” level but that was in a different age when “events, dear boy, events” were regarded as more important than economic theory, and Sir Peter Gershon had not been invented.If I need economic advice, normally I consult Wat Tyler. But now things are getting so serious, so gross, that even I am noticing. Northern Rock fell apart and the taxpayer picked up the pieces to save the government’s face. The next day, the poorest workers in the country are having their tax increased by a Labour government. Look at the reality of that as described by the excellent Village Postmaster. I just paid 116p a litre for a tank full of diesel. The property market is crashing. That does not affect me directly because I am not buying or selling.... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1370715 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:47:00 +0100 1370715 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1366959&cid=t_175429_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Frecoveryissexy.com%2Fstools-and-bottles%2F The booklet Stools and Bottles uses the concept of a barstool (the seat and three legs) and eight bottles to represent the importance of the first four steps (of the Twelve Steps) of Alcoholics Anonymous. The author began using this concept in a prior book called The Little Red Book and it got so popular that the concept was expanded into its own book. The Stool The author begins the book by talking about the “seat” of the stool. The seat, by itself, is “as useless, incomplete, and undependable as the shaky alcoholic it upholds”. For the seat to function, it needs three legs to uphold it, just like the alcoholic needs the first three steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) for support. The author says that the three legs represent the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of reco... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1366959 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:48:28 +0100 1366959 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1327458&cid=t_175429_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F03%2Fcheap-dishonest-headline-from-bbc.html A report from the BBC today which manages to merge and encapsulate provocative, headline grabbing journalistic dishonesty and the utter stupidity of target driven medicine. Nothing the BBC likes more than a free headline on the trendiest of all cancers, breast cancer, particularly if it is bad news. And the BBC is not worried about accuracy and honesty. Nothing the government likes more than a target, useless though it may be, for doctors to waste time trying to hit when they should be concentrating on the rational management of cancer.The BBC headline says:Breast MRI scans ‘commonly wrong’This is not true. It is not remotely true. It is fraudulent scare-mongering.MRI scanning is a well established imaging modality. And MRI scans are never wrong about anything. Never. MRI scans show a ... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1327458 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:51:00 +0100 1327458