Stories
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Mistakes and perfect medicine
This week our anonymous GP reflects on how a mistake made in a busy, stressful environment could have had serious consequences.
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Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
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When self-deception becomes global hoax
Being deceived isn’t always a case of believing someone else’s lie. Experiments have shown that many of us can be manipulated into accepting our own fictions as true.
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Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
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Clinical pharmacology of levodopa. Part 1.
Date: 1971- Books
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Select cases in the practice of medicine. By John Brisbane, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, And Senior Physician to the Middlesex Hospital.
Brisbane, John, -1776?.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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Medical and chirurgical observations, as an appendix to a former publication. By Benjamin Gooch surgeon.
Gooch, Benjamin, -1780?.Date: [1773]- Books
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Medical consultations on various diseases: Published from the Letters of Thomas Thompson, M. D. Physician to his late Royal Highness Frederic Prince of Wales.
Thompson, Thomas, -1763.Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]- Archives and manuscripts
Notebook - 1
Date: 1910-1941Reference: GC/21/1Part of: Hood, Basil