The high-profile cases featured in newspapers often tell the other side of this story. They almost centre around tragic cases where a patient’s best interests cannot be agreed between the healthcare team and the family. In cases where the brain injury is so severe that the patient has no chance of a meaningful recovery, continuing treatment may not be in the patient’s best interests – regard...
This trial design (randomized controlled trials) is considered the most robust and reliable. However, when I step onto my ICU tomorrow, 90 per cent of what I do will not be based upon this level of evidence. … Tomorrow I may examine all of my patients with my hands and my stethoscope but, surprisingly, there are few studies to support these as useful practices. If the stethoscope were to be in...(3回应)
中国公众就很需要这种医学普及教育但是不知道当局让不让吧... We need to find out how being in intensive care can affect patients years after they have recovered. We need to debate the ethical and moral questions surrounding who should be treated and not only who can be treated. ... We also need to show the public what is possible, what is right, and what is not.(3回应)
I have made a lot of mistakes as a doctor. However, I am not a bad doctor. What I am is a normal human, working in an abnormal environment. Most mistakes made in medicine relate not to deficits in knowledge or skill. … I now know that mistakes I have made – and am likely to make in the future – will be simple, predictable errors, not complex ones. They are the types of blunder that you will...
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