Friday, 25 April 2014

Letter to Niall Dickson

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Niall Dickson has written in the BMJ and here is my response: "The two year foundation programme was introduced in 2005 (as part o...
Wednesday, 23 April 2014

Letter to NICE on 'preventable' deaths due to acute kidney injury (AKI)

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Dear NICE   I have a simple request relating to your press release :   "Around 20 per cent of emergency cases of AKI are pr...
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Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Shape of Training: what is the GMC hiding?

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I have made the following request to the GMC under the Freedom of Information act: “Has the Chair of the review (Prof Greenaway) discu...
Monday, 3 February 2014

My letter to BMJ on Tooke's defense of the Shape of Training

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I read Professor Sir John Tooke’s recent editorial with great interest (1) and it is strange that he sees the Shape of Training review as a ...
Thursday, 19 December 2013

DH and Hunt are disingenuously spinning data

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The NHS is in crisis because the current government have wasted billions in yet more corrupt market based reforms which will enrich priva...
Friday, 8 November 2013

Department of Health has no record of Brian Jarman's meeting with Jeremy Hunt

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  Firstly I do not agree with Brian Jarman on many things but I have the utmost respect for his integrity as a researcher and a huma...
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Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Why does my shoulder hurt?

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The aim of this piece is to summarise my understanding of why things hurt and specifically, why the shoulder hurts. Obviously this is one m...
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Friday, 20 September 2013

Professor Jarman's reliance on the c-statistic

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There is so so much more to this UK/US HSMR comparison that first meets the eye, at first glance there were some significant flaws and assum...
Thursday, 19 September 2013

HSMRs, coding, big assumptions and implausible conclusions....

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The second major flaw in Prof Brian  Jarman's   UK/US mortality comparison is that it assumes   HSMRs   are reliable and coding is ...
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Monday, 16 September 2013

Many big assumptions have been made: 1. HES Data

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The US/UK HSMR comparison made by Prof Brian Jarman is continuing to rumble on and probably not for reasons that will please the Profess...
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Thursday, 12 September 2013

Channel 4's 'UK/US hospital mortality' story is based on Jarman's sandy foundations

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Last night I sat down to watch the Channel 4 news and was deeply upset by what was then to follow.  The 'news' exclusive on th...
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Friday, 2 August 2013

MAST cosying up with the chiroquacktic community

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It is interesting that MAST Medical are making such efforts to spread the results of their research within the chiropractic community.  Th...
Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Formal complaint letter sent to European Spine Journal

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  Dear Editor I am writing as regards the recent publications by Albert et al ( 1 , 2 ) in the European Spine Journal (ESJ).    Thes...
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Monday, 29 July 2013

Oh Dear - European Spine Journal humiliates itself further!

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  It seems that the European Spine Journal thinks that the more it ignores something, the more likely it is to go away, alas this is no...
Friday, 26 July 2013

The BMA ignores its members

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The BMA has recently entered negotiations on the junior doctor contract, and for the first time in quite a few years they have surveyed th...
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