Does medical treatment mean patient benefit?

WG Pickering - The Lancet, 1996 - elibrary.ru
Addresses the constellation of factors including atavistic impulse, patient-doctor relationship,
and medical care as a supply-demand phenomenon in the common imagination, that lead …

Macrosegregation in steel ingots: the applicability of modelling and characterisation techniques

EJ Pickering - ISIJ international, 2013 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The macro-scale segregation of alloying elements during the casting continues to afflict the
manufacturers of steel ingots, despite many decades of research into its prediction and …

Patient satisfaction: an imperfect measurement of quality medicine.

WG Pickering - Journal of medical ethics, 1993 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In a recent issue of this journal, Stephen G Post (1) presented what he calls'a set of moral
arguments regarding the selective abortion of fetuses on the basis of prenatal screening for …

Cyanide toxicity and the hazards of dicobalt edetate.

WG Pickering - British Medical Journal (Clinical research ed.), 1985 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… WILLIAM G PICKERING Health and Safety Executive Medical Division, Gosforth, Tyne
and Wear …

Kindness, prescribed and natural, in medicine.

WG Pickering - Journal of medical ethics, 1997 - jme.bmj.com
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 …

A nation of people called patients.

WG Pickering - Journal of medical ethics, 1991 - jme.bmj.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Sacred cows: Medical omniscience

WG Pickering - BMJ: British Medical Journal, 1998 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The incalculable number of medical problems and questions to which the medical profession
has no certain answer is balanced by the incalculable number of times that its members …

Glasnost and the medical inspectorate

WG Pickering - The Journal of the Royal College of General …, 1988 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sir, The assessment and teaching of practical skills of trainees is frequently neglected. For
instance, some trainers assume that they do not need to teach their trainee to take a blood …

The relief of communication

WG Pickering - BMJ, 2006 - bmj.com
Even in the best of medical hands communication can be incomplete. Some time ago an
acquaintance, knowing I was medical, told me that she had discovered a problem in her breast …

Single medical errors

WG Pickering - The Lancet, 2000 - thelancet.com
Sir—Shyam Sundar has to be congratulated for his aim of shortening the duration of treatment
and time in hospital for patients with visceral leishmaniasis in India by increasing the …