Why Not a Clinical Lawyer-School?. Some Reflections

Some reflections on how not to get bitten by a clinical guideline.

The last few years have seen the rise of the clinical guideline, in particular those generated from central National Health Service (NHS) bodies such as the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE). Some praise these nationwide emanations as promulgating the brave new world of robust evidence based medicine, others characterise (or caricature) them as dirigiste measures leading to “cook...

The Educational Gender Gap in Latin America: Why Some Girls Do Not Attend School

Girl’s education is universally recognized in the International Development community as an and her community as a whole. Despite the many positive effects of educating girls, girls attend school at a lower rate than boys, creating a gender gap in education. My question is, what causes this gender were used to study these qualitative variables in a quantitative manner. I analyzed these variable...

Doctor-patient communication: some suggestions from a plaintiff's trial lawyer.

Why Most Clinical Research Is Not Useful

John Ioannidis argues that problem base, context placement, information gain, pragmatism, patient centeredness, value for money, feasibility, and transparency define useful clinical research. He suggests most clinical research is not useful and reform is overdue.

Professional education: Some reflections

It was a courageous decision to found a journal in the early 1980’s; and it was nothing less than a leap of faith to name a journal: Education for Information. The times were not auspicious: people were becoming less certain as to what ‘Education’ was; and it was often said of ‘Information’ that it told one more about the user of the term than it did about its intended objective correlative. Li...