Stories
- Article
Why gene editing can never eliminate disability
In a world where DNA testing and gene editing offer ways to eliminate certain disabilities, Jaipreet Virdi explores a more accepting and inclusive approach.
- Long read
Love, grief and assisted dying
In this deeply affecting story, Michelle Elliot explores the events and emotions around the time of her mother’s medically assisted death in Canada, where the practice is legal.
- Article
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.
- Article
Why even plastic surgery can’t hide you from facial recognition
Once upon a time, plastic surgery allowed a few notorious criminals to evade the law. But today, sophisticated facial-recognition technology has turned dreams of anonymity to dust.
Catalogue
- Books
Medical errors and medical narcissism / John Banja.
Banja, John D.Date: 2004- Archives and manuscripts
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Notes on Errors
Date: 1955Reference: PP/CRI/B/3/3Part of: Francis Crick (1916-2004): archives- Archives and manuscripts
James Bower Harrison Popular Medical Errors, addenda
Harrison, James Bower, FRCS (d. 1890)Date: c. 1852-1881Reference: MS.8482- Books
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Medical errors : fallacies connected with the application of the inductive method of reasoning to the science of medicine / by A.W. Barclay.
Barclay, A. W. (Andrew Whyte), 1817-1884.Date: 1864- Archives and manuscripts
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Graph referenced as "Errors"
Davies, Howard G.Date: April 1953Reference: KDBP/1/1/0948Part of: King's College London Department of Biophysics