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How Clean Is Your Beach?
If you're heading to the beach soon to beat the Summer heat, you might want to see how clean it is. Recently, we learned that playing in the sand can… Read more »
The value of a regular service
I have just sent my twenty-seven year old watch for a battery change and a service. Unusually, there was a problem and so the service bill (never low) was breathtakingly… Read more »
Fooling the people
Few things are more enjoyable than watching the advertising industry abuse the English language to foist off rubbish onto an unsuspecting public. Plausible words that promise much but mean nothing… Read more »
Swine flu news (8) : medical blogosphere is a safer source of information than the main stream media
The defendants, the proprietors of a medical preparation called "The Carbolic Smoke Ball," issued an advertisement in which they offered to pay 100 to any person who contracted the influenza… Read more »
Disconnected jottings in the Welsh rain
I've been coming to North Wales in July for over thirty years and can say without hesitation that this is the worst run of sustained bad weather I have ever… Read more »
The dangers of young surgeons
The effects of the Eurpoean working time directive have been creeping in for some years. I wrote about them in 2006Ten to fifteen years ago, the average orthopaedic surgeon would… Read more »
More money down the drain
MSc (Bedpan) - the practical attachmentTurning aside, for a moment, from vexed issues such as the funding of new anti-cancer drugs and the NHS post-code lottery, I am amused to… Read more »
5 Scrumptious Skin Savers
I can't tell you how much skin-saving sun stuff I have stashed at home, at work, and in my car . . . hats, UV-proof sunglasses, lotions/sprays/lip balms with SPFs… Read more »
What a New Era of Pharma Marketing Means to (Diabetes) Patients
As you may have noticed, I’m fascinated with where new Web-enabled communication tools are taking us in the world of medicine in healthcare. I’m also a huge admirer of the… Read more »