Half of what I teach students turns out to be wrong; neither of us know which half. When I qualified no HIV/ AIDS, Heart Failure universally fatal now imminently treatable, Genetic tests almost non existent, Transplantation in its infancy.
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Replying to @GrumpyOldDoc
Only surprises here for me are the speed (quite radical shifts, rather than the incremental improvements CPD implies) and the fact that some clinicians can still be so confident in asserting their clinical views, despite knowing this. Aysha King springs to mind for starters.
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Replying to @C7RKY
May I respectfully suggest you research that case a little more deeply than the junk that appeared in S*n and Ma*l Try his name plus "untold story" and see what turns up
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Replying to @GrumpyOldDoc
John Clarke Retweeted John Clarke
Of course... & I shall. But I already know the treatment the parents were trying to access is now offered by NHS, despite the grotesquely disproportionate measures taken to try and prevent them doing so abroad. Hard to see this in a positive light tbh.https://twitter.com/c7rky/status/949668584330027009 …
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John Clarke @C7RKY"Proton beam cancer treatment to start in Manchester in 2018" - BBC News > Oh good. Does this mean the NHS will no longer be seeking European arrest warrants against parents trying to take their kids abroad for this treatment? That's nice.#ashyaking https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/health-42446686?__twitter_impression=true …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @C7RKY
Well here is the positive light and SOME of the factshttp://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/ashya-king-this-story-isnt-quite-what-it-seems-9716486.html …
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Replying to @GrumpyOldDoc
I think you and I read that piece with v different eyes, doc. I see as much spin as positive in there. My eye was drawn to this part: "Ashya's doctors insist they took a clinical (not financial) decision that it would NOT BE BETTER for him than conventional radiotherapy" >>
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Replying to @C7RKY @GrumpyOldDoc
Which option is/isn't 'better' is an opinion. (And I know you appreciate the subtlety of that wording every bit as much as I do). But if both options are of overall benefit to the patient, then as an adult, I get to choose which one I go for - NOT the clinician. >>
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Replying to @C7RKY
An opinion based on scientific evidence - that is medicine
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Replying to @GrumpyOldDoc
If we start on the subject of what medicine regards as 'science', we could be here a while doc. Suffice to say I'm not a fan. And of course, it's still just an opinion - which can vary. And a soon-to-be-wrong opinion 50% of the time, apparently? (As discussed earlier).
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Nearly missed this doc - sorry. My use of the word 'apparently' was supposed to indicate an element of tongue-in-cheek to that last part. It clearly didn't work though, so let me try again. :)pic.twitter.com/x4WAMY9Zez
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