Biomedical subjects
W G Pickering
Publications and source records attributed to W G Pickering.
Kindness, prescribed and natural, in medicine.
To omit the word kindness in medical practice and journals, in favour of fashionable notions such as "care" and "skills", is not in patients' interests. Health professionals may come to the view that natural kindness (the same as that found in the world outside medicine), because it is absent by name in medical skills courses' or other official edicts, is somehow unscientific and unworthy of their attention. As lay-people know, it is an essential adjunct to all medical management, sometimes the only one required, and by no means always a time-taking matter. And so its use by name in journals, and its actual use in practice, is here recommended. It is a supreme medical ally.
Does medical treatment mean patient benefit?
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Patient satisfaction: an imperfect measurement of quality medicine.
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A nation of people called patients.
The implications of the causal and ubiquitous use, by doctors health-workers and politicians, of the word 'patient' are here discussed. Given that the many implications of this noun do not include health or normality (rather the contrary), it is questionable who, if anyone, profits from its indiscriminate use--and its use, even, at all.
'Patient care' and patient benefit.
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Cyanide toxicity and the hazards of dicobalt edetate.
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Spotlight on moonshine.
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Medical omniscience.
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