All the medics out there will be well familiar with the third stanza of the Hippocratic oath: 'I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone'. The rest of us don’t have such an oath and I think we might need one.
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First, do no harm
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Elite athletes are human too
Putting the Sydney Swans dasher Gary Rohan through the ‘credible evidence of danger and safety’ test I have taken most of an article published in Melbourne’s The Age, and Sydney’s Morning Herald, in the lead ...
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Is pain the same in boys and girls
The differences in the ways that boys and girls are expected to react to pain has long been the subject of folk wisdom and cultural idioms: Boys are expected to “tough it out” and “take ...
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Brace yourself
Despite the popularity of exercise programmes that emphasise “core stability” for the prevention and treatment of chronic low back pain (LBP), numerous high quality randomised controlled trials (RCT) (e.g. here, here and here) have not ...
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How Risky is the Pain Treatment I am Considering
When a medical practitioner prescribes a medical treatment for pain, one of my first questions is whether there are side effects or other potential risks. I contend that every pain treatment is inherently risky; the ...