[video]https://youtu.be/uoWp52mfUjg[/video] The two main sources for a doctor to know what is going on with a patient is via the patient history and the physical examination. All too often now the physical examination has given way to a battery of tests. In an era of amazing advancements in medical technology, this is a most telling and moving talk by Dr Abraham Verghese on the importance of the...

In a number of states in America, there has been the legalisation of the sale of so called "Medical Marijuana" and as a result, large numbers of shops have sprung up in shopping centres selling marijuana openly to people who supposedly have a medical need for it. Last week, I saw a documentary on the efforts of citizens in some of these towns to change the laws to prohibit these sales and to shut...

Adam works as a corporate communications head in a hospital and is just about to announce a new initiative to the entire hospital, the formation of a Pediatric Rapid Response Team. So what is the Rapid Response Initiative? In the usual hospital setting, escalating care for a deteriorating patient is mostly a hierarchal process with nurses informing the ward doctors who will review the patient...