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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:27:00 -0800

I would not dare make this up
My aged friend Wat Tyler is coming out of retirement and even now furiously re-jigging his c.v. before he heads up the M1 to...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:33:00 -0800

Widow Twankey and the whipping boys
The whipping boy“But there isn’t any,” said Alice when the Mad-hatter offered her a glass of wine.Morale amongst family...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:25:00 -0800

Linguistic abuse of the mentally ill
Another look at the careless use of language that so often offends the mentally ill... we thought back to the books we were...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:59:00 -0800

The National Dumbing-Down Centre
Courses: we have offered our university-accredited courses in minor illness management since 1997. You can attend the two-day...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:16:00 -0800

Why the NHS is failing.
Any more good ideas?My drug-sodden old friend Wat Tyler at Burning our Money has just explained in a few hundred words how NHS...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:18:00 -0800

Anal grammarians and eating placentas : Robert van Persie
A short piece in the Guardian again today, this time about the alleged mystical healing powers of placentas and Robert van...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:31:00 -0800

ADHD - should nurses take over diagnosis and management?
In the United States, approximately 9% of the school-age population is diagnosed with ADHD. It's the most commonly diagnosed...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:15:00 -0800

Sick certificates
King Andy's guide to faking a sickieIt has always suited governments to encourage the long-term unemployed to "discover" an...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:13:00 -0700

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) : science, quackery & mental illness
The militant wing of the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) brigade broke out the champagne when a recent article in Science...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:17:00 -0700

Public Stools
GarderobeA smartly dressed, middle-aged lady came in and sat down. Let's call her Angela. Angela was a child of the 60s, the...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:21:00 -0700

The illusion of choice
Last week, my ageing motorcar started making an odd noise. The service manager told me I needed a replacement camfleugal pin....
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:59:00 -0700

Going to the Devil
I rise briefly from my slumbers to spring to the defence of the Devil, whose most recent post has caused a furore and even...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:25:00 -0700

Swine flu immunisations
The government's chief commissar for immunisations, Professor David Salisbury, has said that nurses have a "duty" to be...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:50:00 -0700

iPhones and PDAs, manbags and Moleskines
Dr Crippen had always liked gadgets. As a child, when gadgets had not been invented, I liked stationery. To someone who is and...
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Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:33:00 -0700

We’re not homebirth wingnuts, we just want equal treatment
You can never please some people.The Australian government has recently, much to the chagrin of some doctors, introduced what...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:02:00 -0700

Paranoid doctors
The Jobbing Doctor is back from his holidays:So I go back to work tomorrow, and one of the first things I will do is look at...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:57:00 -0700

The coffee-shop feminists are back
The scenarioAnne is in the process of giving birth, with assistance, to her second child. She has been in labour for nearly an...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:02:00 -0700

Lobsters : boiling water?
As usual at this time of year, my mind turns to the best way to kill and cook a lobster. I have written about this before but...
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Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:27:04 -0700

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Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:22:07 -0700

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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:18:00 -0700

Swine flu news : update (10) Dealing with the "swine-line" fall out.
Swine-lineBack to the grind. The weather does not matter as much now, though irritatingly it is sunny. I was on edge during the...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:52:00 -0700

More money down the drain
MSc (Bedpan) - the practical attachmentTurning aside, for a moment, from vexed issues such as the funding of new anti-cancer...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:50:00 -0700

The value of a regular service
I have just sent my twenty-seven year old watch for a battery change and a service. Unusually, there was a problem and so the...
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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:04:00 -0700

Swine flu news (9) : sense prevails

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Dr John Crippen posted a blog entry

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:05:00 -0700

Swine flu news (8) : medical blogosphere is a safer source of information than the main stream media
The defendants, the proprietors of a medical preparation called "The Carbolic Smoke Ball," issued an advertisement in which...
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