The Medical Hypotheses Affair – Times Higher Education
“Without prejudice” – 6 May 2010 – Times Higher Education Bruce G Charlton “Bruce Charlton explains why he published a paper by ‘perhaps the world′s most hated scientist’ and the importance of airing radical ideas” * On 11 May, Elsevier, the multinational academic publisher, will sack me from my position as editor of Medical Hypotheses. [...]
Obstetrics
I delivered my first baby today! It was a baby girl. [photo was taken with Mother's consent] Copyright My Medical Student Life 2010 at mymedicalstudentlife.blogspot.com
Differential Diagnoses and Parkinson’s Disease
What do the stereotypes mean for you and PD? We already know that the precursor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease can show their presence years before the disease is full blown and diagnosable.  We always want to be reassuring or to be reassured when we notice them. So we tell each other and ourselves: “Oh, it’s [...]
Journalology round-ups return!
My, doesn’t time fly, etc. etc. Open access Gaining impact, readers and authors through fee-less-free dissemination: an experiment with open access. “Most journals in India and other developing countries face the challenges of shortage of quality articles, poor international recognition, maintaining publication schedule and managing the finances. Many of these problems are inter-linked and are [...]
An algorithmic approach to the ECG differentiation of narrow QRS tachycardias
In contrast to some previously published approaches this one asks the clinician to choose among three algorithms, depending on how much information is available. The algorithms lead the clinician through the same diagnostic steps that the ordinary logical and common sense thought process of a reasonably experienced clinician would take, but provide them in a [...]
