Junior doctors 'practice' on dying patients - Encouraging junior doctors to acquire skills by 'practising' on dying patients has been condemned by many physicians in a new US study (BMJ, 2000; 320...

Junior doctors 'practice' on dying patients - Encouraging junior doctors to acquire skills by 'practising' on dying patients has been condemned by many physicians in a new US study (BMJ, 2000; 320...

Junior Doctors: It’s true, they don’t really know what they are doing - If you’ve ever spent any time in hospital, you’ve probably been treated by a junior doctor. And, inevitably, your chances of suffering malpractice or...

Fracture or sprain? junior doctors can’t tell you - Junior doctors in emergency departments are commonly diagnosing wrist fractures as simple sprains, according to a new UK study.

Choking on medicine - Until the 1950s asthma was not thought to be a life threatening condition. Thus the Oxford Medicine in 1920 said: "Prognosis is excellent. The sensiti...

Junior surgeons need supervising, report urges - Nearly a fifth of operations performed during weekday evenings and 7 per cent of those performed during the daytime and at weekends are performed by u...

So you think you need . . . a diagnostic biopsy - One of the things conventional medicine prides itself on is its diagnoses. But much of the credit goes not to doctors, but to the technologists who ha...

The unscience of medicine: - People are the problem - Medicine prides itself on being a science. It constantly evaluates drugs and therapies by way of expensive trials, and is governed by strict - and ex...