Ray’s latest column in the British Medical Journal celebrates a fantastic song by one of Australia’s great bands, and the potential healing power of music. Here you can read the full text of Times like these you need some One Four Five
Category Archives: BMJ
The Greening of Medicine
January 26, 2012 – 7:43 am
Ray’s latest feature in the British Medical Journal is The Greening of Medicine – exposing healthcare’s unhealthy carbon footprint and how to make medicine cleaner and greener. The story inspired this BMJ Front Cover
Is Your Mum on Drugs?
August 29, 2011 – 8:55 am
After rescuing her elderly mother from a case of over-drugging, Johanna Trimble decided enough was enough, and she’s since become an influential patient advocate in Canada where she lives. “I really wanted to do something about the epidemic of overmedication of our elders” says Johanna Trimble, in Ray’s latest column for the British Medical Journal. [...]
The seductive, dangerous magic of numbers
August 21, 2011 – 10:38 pm
In Ray’s latest feature article for the British Medical Journal he explores medicine’s obsession with relying on “proxy” measures of health – things like cholesterol or bone mineral density numbers. As the article explains, “…the grand assumption that helping a person’s numbers will automatically improve their health, is a delusion as dangerous as it is [...]
We need to be wary about new disease definitions – BMJ editor
May 12, 2011 – 11:37 pm
The editor of the British Medical Journal, Dr Fiona Godlee warns of the need to be wary of new definitions of disease, and calls on doctors to make their patients more aware of debates around where we draw the line between health and illness. Dr Godlee’s editorial ‘Who should define disease?‘ is well worth a [...]
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