Bad Medicine: Private medicine practice

Bad medicine

In his new book Ben Goldacre argues that the pharmaceutical industry is in poor health and in urgent need of treatment. Richard Smith agrees.

Bad Medicine: Good medicine - the GP paramedic.

I am old school. I think that craft beers taste like urine, tofu tastes like polystyrene, and that posting your life all over social media is tasteless. I feel lucky to be a doctor; it’s a privilege not a burden. I also don’t buy into the idea that doctors are the most gifted and caring people in our society, because it just isn’t true. Becoming a doctor is much more about privilege than abilit...

Protecting the private practice of medicine: we need more data.

Benzodiazepines: good or bad medicine?

Editorial T his month Canadian Family Physician presents the results of a survey of Belgian family physicians, which was designed to elicit their attitudes toward prescribing benzodiazepines (BZDs) and the barriers they perceived to nonpharmacologic methods as alternative ways to manage stress, anxiety, and insomnia (page e398). Anthierens and colleagues 1 remind us how widespread the use of BZ...

Good medicine and bad medicine: science to promote the convergence of "alternative" and orthodox medicine.

A complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) system divorced from scientific medicine means that patients can only benefit from the best of both systems by dividing their care. Science must be used to stimulate convergence of complementary and traditional healthcare. First class research to examine the more interesting claims of the alternative health industry is essential to broaden the rang...