Is it really always only the others who are to blame? GP’s view on medical overuse. A questionnaire study

The Swimmer's view: does it really show what it is supposed to show? A retrospective study

BACKGROUND One of the basic principles in the primary survey of a trauma patient is immobilisation of the cervical spine till cleared of any injury. Lateral cervical spine radiograph is one of the important initial radiographic assessments. More than often additional radiographs like the Swimmer's view are necessary for adequate visualisation of the cervical spine. How good is the Swimmer's vie...

Eating Behaviour: Is It Always a Conscious Choice?

in the past 40 years there has been drastic increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide (1). This rapid increase in the prevalence of obesity is not a matter of physiologic or metabolic alteration within people. Thousands of scientific papers are published each year indicating that pharmaceutical companies are working to find possible money making antiobesity agents. Increasing in the preva...

Impediments to "T2" research: are ethics really to blame?

Ever since the emergence of the field of research ethics, concerns have existed about the possibility that regulation of research might “cripple”, if not eliminate, research in important fields (Beecher 1959). In recent years research ethics review has been accused of impeding basic and translational research and of being responsible for driving medical research from the industrialised West to ...

Multiple chemical sensitivity--is the environment really to blame?

The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunologyl has reaffirmed its doubts about the scientific status of what is known as multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS). Yet despite a long line of such authoritative rejections2-4 MCS continues to gain in popularity, political support and media attention. The emergence of MCS followed reports of a multitude of symptoms triggered by exposure to subs...

A Problem in Avicennas View on the Origination of the Soul and a Reply to It