Covid-19: are we treating the wrong disease, the wrong way with the wrong attitude?

Wrong questions, wrong answers? Are we getting the drugs we need?

This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Lipworth W, Kerridge I, Day R. 2012. Wrong questions, wrong answers? Are we getting the drugs we need? Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 91 3, 367–369 is available online at http://www.nature.com/cl...

Are we wrong about representation?

In his recent book, The Elm and The Expert (1994), Jerry Fodor opens with a rather puzzling remark: “It may be that I have gotten myself into a philosophical situation about which all that can helpfully be said is that I ought not to have gotten myself into it” (p.1). Fodor is referring to what is a paradoxical and deep problem in his theory concerning the relations between representational con...

Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient adverse events: Are they preventable?

HYPOTHESIS Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient adverse events (WSPEs) are devastating, unacceptable, and often result in litigation, but their frequency and root causes are unknown. Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient events are likely more common than realized, with little evidence that current prevention practice is adequate. DESIGN Analysis of se...

Occupational rheumatology: are we using the wrong model?

How much are rheumatologists concerned with occupational disorders? The latest edition of Copeman [1] states that 'these conditions have remained largely within the province of practitioners of occupational medicine, and rheumatologists have tended to ignore the problems'. Yet surely this is something that concerns us all. In a recent survey of referrals to rheu-matology outpatients in Leeds, 2...

Door-to-balloon time: are we evaluating the wrong metric?