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If something is described as ‘reliable’, what springs to mind? Dull but dependable? Solid and sure? It’s a word that gets bandied about with respect to clinical studies and I’ve often won...

https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2020/12/16/reliable/

Not-sure-ness … a word sadly missing from the dictionary at the moment … is thick in the air at the moment, like sunseekers on a August beach or beer bottles the morning after a party* Not-su...

https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2020/09/28/confused-ambiguous-or-uncertain/

The aged among you may be aware wing mirrors in other countries carried a warning .. “Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are”. Those of a certain persuasion may be un...

https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2020/08/26/looking-back-and-mistaking-things/

If eleven people say one thing, and a twelfth disagrees, where do we go with the decision? Let us start with a simple question. What if it’s “Are the chips any good at the canteen?” Straigh...

https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2020/07/22/vote-counting/

It’s when big stuff hits and happens that the machinery of state (or the hospital or household) seems to step up and move fast and effectively to undertake activities it seemed to need months t...

https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2020/05/20/questioning-the-minutiae/

The novel coronavirus pandemic of 2020 has brought about many changes in what we’ve been doing, some of which might stay and some of which might go. One of the striking things was about how we,...

https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2020/05/06/dont-panic-dr-mainwaring/

There’s been a flurry of interest about non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAIDs) drugs like ibuprofen and the new coronavirus recently. The UK medicine’s safety authority have been clear that...

https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2020/03/19/in-pandemics-clear-thinking-and-explanations-matter-even-more/

Non-inferiority is an annoying phrase. Mostly because it’s got the feel of a double-negative about it, but also because it’s frequently quite a confusing thing to prove. There are an increasi...

https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2020/01/20/as-good-as-youve-got/

Now and then you’ll be looking at research and thinking “that’s interesting” .. or “we should do that” .. but perhaps there’s a nagging doubt in the back of your brain. I would enco...

https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2019/12/13/whats-not-being-said/

The joys of new technologies are many and varied. There are now ways of communicating even within NHS hospitals which were apparently designed to block all mobile phone signals, to see veins wher...

https://blogs.bmj.com/adc/2019/10/29/mirages-and-moving-classifiers/