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Time for a break
Happy 60th birthday, NHS : your very good health!
The NHS was set up to provide comprehensive, high quality health care for all, without regard to means or status. In one of his finest posts, Dr Rant looks at what is left after sixty yearsComprehensive coverageThe NHS provides great comprehensive coverage unless:-
Lord Darzi : offensively inoffensive
Lord Darzi : offensively inoffensive Alan, Ara &
Gordon
Lord Darzi is a clever guy. Of that there is no possible doubt. He is a highly accomplished, pioneering laparoscopic surgeon. That does not make it intuitively obvious why he should be able to provide what is being trailed by the government as the single most important NHS master plan since 1997. I suspect he has been picked for his voice. There is something enormously relaxing about his mellifluous tone and his gentle Irish cadences. Such a shame, then, that his report is a load of meaningless drivel.
Mobile phones cause HIV-Aids
Mobile phones cause HIV-Aids - 
Has Dr Crippen taken leave of his senses? Certainly not. It’s the newsagent's fault. This morning he accidentally delivered the “world’s greatest newspaper” rather than the normal “Independent on Sunday” and therein is an article by a much respected government advisor:
Why we should all read the "Daily Mail"
Most intelligent people caught reading the Daily Mail will have an explanation. “I found it on the train” or “They delivered the wrong paper this morning. I normally get The Times”. Truth be told, apart from the title, The Times is increasingly indistinguishable from the Daily Mail. But I digress. Ben Goldacre of “Bad Science” has a column in The Guardian, so you would think he reads The Guardian. And he probably does. But he reads the Daily Mail too. His excuse seems to be that “he has to” because he is a medical journalist. OK, Ben, I can go with that.
In discussing the effect of popular medical journalism he says:
