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Goodbye to the year of the Big Lie; hello, reverse centaur

We live in a world of lies, damned lies, and AI hallucinations. A US publication calculated that Donald […]

December 19, 2025 Christmas

Mosaic mural helps GPs and patients put pieces back together after covid

It was as they were emerging from covid lockdowns that GP practice staff at River Place Health Centre […]

December 18, 2025 Christmas

End-of-life care needs cultural humility and social justice

Death, dying, and grief are not medical events—they are profoundly social, relational, and shaped by the histories people […]

December 18, 2025 Christmas

The making of a statistician: Doug Altman

Doug Altman was an internationally renowned statistician who served as The BMJ’s chief statistical adviser. He was also […]

December 17, 2025 Christmas

Good news from 2025

CancerT cell gene therapy shows promise in leukaemiaA new treatment using gene edited immune cells, developed by scientists […]

December 17, 2025 Christmas

Seven alternatives to evidence based medical education: an exploration of how we actually teach

The gold standard of medical education, like clinical practice, is evidence based.12 Teaching methods should ideally draw from […]

December 16, 2025 Christmas

Tom Stoppard, Arcadia, and chaos theory

In 1993 I went to the National Theatre to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, […]

December 16, 2025 Christmas

Migration of clinical lexicon to colloquial slang

Doctors are known for our use of jargon, acronyms, and myriad medical phrases that can sometimes feel like […]

December 13, 2025 Christmas

Parallel pressures: the common roots of doctor bullshit and large language model hallucinations

The phenomenon of doctors presenting unfounded statements with unwavering arrogance—colloquially known as “bullshit”—has long been recognised in medical […]

December 13, 2025 Christmas

AI chatbots and the loneliness crisis

AI chatbot systems, such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot, are used increasingly as confidants of choice.1 On the […]

December 12, 2025 Christmas

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