Stories
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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.
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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
Medication errors : lessons for education and healthcare / Robert Naylor.
Naylor, Robert John, 1943-Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
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Water-cure for the million : the processes of water-cure explained, popular errors exposed, hygienic and drug-medication contrasted : rules for bathing, dieting, exercising, etc., recipes for cooking, directions for home-treatment, remarkable cases to illustrate, etc. / by R.T. Trall.
Trall, R. T. (Russell Thacher), 1812-1877.Date: 1860- Books
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Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted / by John Jones.
Date: 1797- Books
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The traditional errors of surgery : the presidential address, at the thirty-ninth annual session of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania / by R.J. Levis.
Levis, R. J. (Richard Joseph), 1827-1890.Date: 1888- Books
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'Fitting glasses,' the diagnosis of errors in refraction, the influence of eyestrain, etc. / by George M. Gould.
Gould, George Milbrey, 1848-1922.Date: 1906