I always rather enjoy being processed by the NHS. Instead of my usual panoramic (and perhaps highly misleading) view I’m down in the scrub. What
Category: Medicine
Bring your phone with you to all your medical appointments
You should bring your phone to your next medical appointment. And you should use it while with your doctor and nurse, typing during the appointment.
DIY genomics: how patients can collect data for genetic researchers
Melanie Swan has just published an excellent paper in the Journal of Participatory Medicine, “Citizen Science Genomics as a Model for Crowdsourced Preventive Medicine Research”.
Feeding back to individuals the findings of research on their genes
Around the world research groups are sequencing the genome of tens of thousands of people, and a crucial question is what to do about feeding
Computers take histories better than doctors: why don’t they do it more?
Here’s a simulated doctor patient consultation that took place today at the Royal Society of Medicine. A 65 year old woman (cunningly disguised as a
Five examples of scaling up
The first example was from Abu Dhabi, which Oliver Harrison, a British doctor, and colleagues have turned into a “living laboratory”. They are aiming to measure