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From The Wire to Good Times, Bad Times

June 26, 2009 – 9:31 am

I like the saying that you so often hear in health – that each system is perfectly designed to produce the results that it does. It’s often used to account for the evidence that the health system itself causes an enormous toll of health problems, known in the jargon as “adverse events”.
Dr Tom Keating, who [...]

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Academics as journalists?

November 19, 2008 – 6:40 pm

Some journalists (and quite possibly some academics too) might not appreciate this suggestion, but every now and then I come across an academic publication and think, “what a wonderful piece of journalism”. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.
The best of journalistic practice – a willingness to challenge accepted wisdoms, to investigate where [...]

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