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Alternative Medicine modalities – should we just accept them ?
Sometime ago I posted a series of articles here covering off my skeptical world view and position on non-scientifically based medical treatments. Please feel free to review them at your leisure. In ensuing months there have been several critical comments …
Continue ReadingNHS Accident and Emergency Update
It has been some time since I last posted on Talk Health, the delay has simply been down to pressure of work and also I suppose partly a dearth of decent topics on which to expound. However I ended up …
Continue ReadingA Skeptical Approach to Medicine – Part Three – What’s the harm ?
It’s been a while since I had the opportunity to post on Talk Health Partnership. This is despite a range of subjects interesting and moving me to want to comment. As ever, time is one of a select few commodities …
Continue ReadingDeath (now that got your attention) a [slightly] funny blog post
It’s been a while since I posted on Talk Health and morbidly, for reasons I will not bore you with I have been thinking about the grim reaper. The top five causes of death in the UK (according to the …
Continue ReadingDo people buy ‘go private’ because the NHS is bad ?
In the United Kingdom the historic premise behind the National Health Service (NHS) has always been medical care free to the user at the point of delivery. It should of course never be forgotten that the NHS is anything but …
Continue ReadingMedia misrepresentation of the National Health Service
In previous posts I’ve discussed my opinions on the NHS and regular readers of my other blog (details of my ‘Localventure’ blog are below) will know I also post regularly about media coverage of medical issues. In particular, I loathe …
Continue ReadingCrisis within the NHS Accident and Emergency Function
Part 3 of my Skeptical Approach to Medicine is planned out and en route but today I wanted to explore a slightly different topic. There is according to the media a crisis within the A & E Function of the …
Continue ReadingA Skeptical Approach to Medicine – Part Two – Don’t just accept what you hear
In the first part of this article that I posted I discussed my world view with regards to skepticism and tried to give a basic definition for how to approach both science and medicine and identified what I would view …
Continue ReadingA Skeptical Approach to Medicine – Part One : Supplements, Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (SCAM)
As readers of my posts here and also at my own blog (see link below) will know I am (amongst other things) a financial services professional operating in the private medical market and most decidedly not a clinician. However, I …
Continue ReadingSir Robert Edwards : 27 September 1927 to 13 April 2013
Last week a true scientific, medical and humanitarian giant lost his long fight with a serious lung disease. Literally a genius whose advancements in fertility science defined the final third of the 20th Century and to whom millions are grateful. …
Continue ReadingCardiac Surgery Fiasco at the Leeds Health Trust
As a resident of Leeds, a professional in the healthcare sector and a member of the Leeds Hospitals Trust it would be a understatement to say that I am interested in the recent saga of childrens cardiac surgery at the …
Continue ReadingNHS versus Private Healthcare … a personal journey
Welcome to my first Talkhealth blog post. I deal with a range of health issues on a daily basis during my working life and regularly run through a variety of them on my business blog and my regular podcast but …
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