Reviews have named the failures in maternity care. The urgent question is why the same problems keep returning.
- Professor and Director of the Stoneygate Centre for Excellence in Empathic Healthcare, University of Leicester
Banning social media bans won’t fix the problem. The issue is the smartphone.
AI chatbots are outperforming doctors in empathy ratings. But the real story isn’t about robot superiority, it’s about how we’ve broken healthcare.
Selon une nouvelle étude analysant des résultats provenant d’hôpitaux du monde entier, les problèmes de communication entre soignants mettraient chaque année en danger la vie d’un grand nombre de patients.
Hospital miscommunication is a leading cause of preventable harm, a new review finds.
So-called ‘sham’ or ‘placebo’ surgery can be more effective than more invasive surgery. So why aren’t we using it more often?
Just over a third of NHS patients are satisfied with their care. This can easily be improved.
Os placebos são a coisa mais próxima da magia que a medicina descobriu.
Placebos are the closest thing to magic that medicine has discovered.
A lack of empathy can be fatal, for both doctors and patients.
A new study finds that medical students lose their empathy, to everyone’s detriment.
A novel study from Switzerland used dummy pills to help people overcome bad guilt.
Around 95% of treatments do not have high-quality evidence to support their benefits
A whistle-stop tour of the history of placebos.
Fortifying essential food with sensible amounts of vitamin D is a cheap intervention that will have a small but important benefit.
Researchers rarely report what’s in a placebo.
Most medical treatments don’t work according to the best evidence.
Before we chuck out the old way of seeing the doctor, we need to look at what might be lost.
A simple head-to-head trial would resolve this conflict once and for all.
The nocebo effect could be making more people ill.
Recent evidence about the existence of nocebo effects has revealed that the way patients are informed about treatment side-effects is unethical.
Placebos come in different shapes, colours that can all have different effects.
Evidence for the benefits of empathy in healthcare is mounting.
Centuries from now, antidepressants may be seen as a barbaric treatment for treating children with depression.
… and spend more time with their patients.
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