On Evidence, Education, Errors, Ego and Expert intuition

Posted on July 25, 2012 at 9:23 pm by with 5 Comments
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This is not the usual Broome Docs post.  So just a quick foreword to warn you!  This is an essay on the way we practice medicine.  There are no gory pictures, tricky cases or clinical insights today – just my collected thoughts following recent meditation and discussion around what we do.  This is a little [...]

Medicolegal / Ethical, Pearls and Pitfalls

Benzos, back pain, Descartes and depression

Posted on July 12, 2012 at 10:07 pm by with Leave a Comment

This week I got involved in an online debate that started at LITFL’s Socrates and Sophistry section, then spilled over into the less-civilized Twittersphere.  Dr Minh le Cong @rfdsdoc (PHARM podcast) and I got into a bit of a debate about the role of benzodiazepines in acute back pain management.  I took the no, not [...]

Emergency, General Practice, Medicolegal / Ethical, Psychiatry