‘I have a sore throat! Is that common with 2019-new-Corona-Virus?’

Bismillah, alhamdulillah: paper out reviewing 99 cases in The Lancet. Key findings: 2019-nCoV presentations:fever 83%,cough 81%,sob 31%,myalgia 11%,confusion 9%,headache 8%,sore throat 5%Men affected more than women https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30211-7/fulltext

2019 new Corona Virus (2019-nCoV) – ‘made’ in China

Bismillah, alhamdulillah: with information flying rapidly around from ‘drink water often to prevent the spread of the new corona virus’ to ‘don’t order anything from China as the virus will be spread through the ordered items’, it was time to get some facts from the virus experts at This Week in Virology (TWiV) who interviewed

The power of English in a graph and a new area of research that may link doctors and engineers – MELF & EELF

Bismillah, alhamdulillah: I came across this graph (see below) that shows the rise of the English language in the medical field around 10 years after the second world war and the decline of its competitors [1]. It is leading to a new area of research called Medical English as a Lingua Franca (MELF) which is

Item based costing in health – an exercise in futility?

Bismillah, alhamdulillah: recently a patient was added to my list. The person who added the patient wanted them to be referred for a gastro consult as that was what the referral protocol required. I asked what the reason was for the referral and was told because the person had a previous colonoscopy they were excluded