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Ooooh, Vitamin D

14 Thursday Aug 2014

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Your Health Comes First.

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Now I don’t know if this song is a real thing, or just something my mother used to sing to me as a child in the 1980s. But it would go ‘ooooh, Vitamin D, Vitamin D’. I assume it was about how good Vitamin D was for you, maybe there was a line about going out into the sun? But it might well have been a song about sliced bread or falling in love that my mother changed the words to one day and they stayed changed. This happens a lot in my family. 

Anyway, this is a post about mens sana in corpore sano. That is, this is a blog about academic writing, which happens in the mind; but our minds function in our brains, which are organs, that are located in our bodies.

So, I’ve been sick for ever, it seems. (I wrote about…

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What’s behind the rise in complaints about doctors from members of the public?

22 Tuesday Jul 2014

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A response by GMC Director Fitness to Practice on rising complaints against doctors in UK.

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Anthony Omo, the GMC’s Director of Fitness to Practise, looks at some of the findings of research from Plymouth University and considers what this means for the GMC.

Complaints about doctors have been on the rise for some time. In 2012 we received more than 8,000 complaints about doctors – a rise of over 100% since 2007. Part of this increase is down to a welcome change in culture where more doctors are speaking up when things go wrong. However over half of all complaints in 2012 came from members of the public.

This increase is not unique to the medical profession: we have seen similar trends across the NHS. However some of the complaints that we receive from the public could and should be resolved at a local level. Just one in five of these complaints met our criteria for a full investigation in 2012 and this raises important…

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Is it time to lock up those who commit research fraud?

16 Wednesday Jul 2014

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Is it time to lock up those who commit research fraud?.

Dishonesty in research can compromise lives. The MMR scare is bad enough. The recent case of H.I.V research falsifications from Ohio is criminal. And quite rightly the Americans are charging this scientist with the crime of fraud.

Mustapha Tahir

15 July 2014