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 'dogma'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:39:47 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3868738&cid=t_176016_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fan-emergency-medicine-myth%2F2010.08.15 I’ve internalized all the dogma of medicine, for good and bad. When I was an EMT, green as a twig in an ER, I learned the basics: For any wound with hair employ the razor, and get the hair away from the laceration so the doc could do a good closure. So, employment week #3: Eyebrow laceration? Shaved that sucker clean off. ER doc freaked out, and I learned some medical dogma: Don’t shave eyebrows, they don’t grow back. Heard it later, too — all the way through training, in fact. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at GruntDoc* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3868738 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:00:29 +0100 3868738 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3827069&cid=t_176016_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fmedical-school-and-hard-science%2F2010.08.05 One of the recurring themes of this blog, not surprisingly given its name, is the proper role of science in medicine. As Dr. Novella has made clear from the very beginning, we advocate science-based medicine (SBM), which is what evidence-based medicine (EBM) should be. SBM tries to overcome the shortcomings of EBM by taking into account all the evidence, both scientific and clinical, in deciding what therapies work, what therapies don’t work, and why. To recap, a major part of our thesis is that EBM, although a step forward over prior dogma-based medical models, ultimately falls short of making medicine as effective as it can be. As currently practiced, EBM appears to worship clinical trial evidence above all else and nearly completely ignores basic science considerations, relegating the... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3827069 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:00:55 +0100 3827069 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2726973&cid=t_176016_139_f&fid=38879&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FVirologyBlog%2F%7E3%2FrUQtgvT6FuY%2F Although many viruses are classified into individual families based on a variety of physical and biological criteria, they may also be placed in groups according to the type of genome in the virion. Over 30 years ago virologist David Baltimore devised an alternative classification scheme that takes into account the nature of the viral nucleic acid. One of the most significant advances in virology of the past 30 years has been the understanding of how viral genomes are expressed. Cellular genes are encoded in dsDNA, from which mRNAs are produced to direct the synthesis of protein. Francis Crick conceptualized this flow of information as the central dogma of molecular biology: DNA —> RNA —> protein All viruses must direct the synthesis of mRNA to produce proteins. No viral genome e... virology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2726973 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:12:08 +0100 2726973 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1432384&cid=t_176016_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F05%2Fmedical-dogma-and-circle-game.html When I was a medical registrar, I treated many patients with heart failure. Some of them had just come from coronary care where they had spend two days slugged out with morphine whilst I taught the medical students about the ECG changes during the evolution of a myocardial infarction - from raised ST segments until, if they survived, the development of "q" waves. No clot busters, no emergency angiography and no stents in those days. It makes me shiver. If I had gone on to treat any of these heart failure patients with beta blockers, they would have died, and I would have been sued as beta-blockers were known to be dangerous in heart failure. Still, at least we knew the benefits of spironolactone, a drug that then fell into disuse, only to be rediscovered a few years ago.Nowadays, I would p... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1432384 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:43:00 +0100 1432384 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1337058&cid=t_176016_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FWomensBioethicsBlog%2F%7E5%2F260821868%2FeaGgpGLxLQw%26amp%3Bhl%3Den [Via Orac's Respectful Insolence blog] Orac comments that he can't make up his mind about this YouTube clip, whether is it's a slam on Richard Dawkins or a slam of the creationists' perceptions... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Women's Bioethics Blog) Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1337058 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:08:50 +0100 1337058