Testing Times
So we can get our DNA tested with no questions asked. Boots will do it for you £129. All sorts of tests are available at a price. if you want to know if your spouse, teenage son employees are taking...
View ArticleThe Four Staplers of the Apocalypse
This excerpt on the ‘interpretative labour’ that health systems force patients and carers to do is taken from Chris Hatton’s wonderful blog which in turn is summary of David Graeber’s excellent new...
View ArticleMore about patient-led commissioning of ‘middle range’ conditions
This post gives more detail about how patient organisations could act as proxy commissioners of care pathways for their disease. It is linked to the BMJ blog ‘Is British medicine ever corrupt?’ which...
View ArticleScale is a bug not a feature for online health communities
This blog is derived from research on online health communities carried out with @benmetz. Full results can be seen at here. ‘When I finally discovered an online forum (for my condition) I cried every...
View ArticleThe origins of the BMJ’s ‘Gatekeeper goes digital’
Does the epistemology of digital information herald the end of general practice? This paper eventually became ‘The Gatekeeper goes Digital’ published in the Christmas edition of the BMJ 2016. General...
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