Category Archives: Medicine

Frigging brilliant

23 January, 2010 – 5:38 pm
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The best articles in Gastroenterology and Hepatology – 2009 edition

9 January, 2010 – 10:07 am

Plus some editorializing – as a disclaimer, I have no conflicts of interest in any of the below. I’m only talking about clinical articles with real impact on practice. I’m not covering some new inducible transmembrane gene linked to sonic hedgehog here. I think Hepatology is easy – and it’s a tie – but I [...]

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On the note of racial bias – Tintin rears his head again

29 December, 2009 – 2:24 pm

A recent article in BMJ (yet again) ponders if Herge isn’t Satan himself, now covering whether or not he correctly depicts mental illness, psychiatry, and substance abuse. It’s laughable on so many levels, but let’s start: Societal norms change over time, this is an important lesson for children to learn (in addition to adults apparently) [...]

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