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What does cause heart disease?
(Part one of an occasional series) So what does cause heart disease then, if it is not cholesterol? This is question I am often asked – with varying degrees of accusation – by other doctors. Usually...
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Salt intake – What of Nuns?
Excess salt intake is one of the great issues in preventative medicine. Last year I watched a bus go by, with an advert for reducing salt plastered all over the side. Some restaurants have taken salt...
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Bias, bias everywhere
For hundreds of years, medicine was driven by anecdote and personal beliefs, without the slightest supportive evidence. In the nineteen twenties the most common operation done was ‘removal of toxic...
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You are a very black swan indeed
Here is Wikipedia on the wisdom of Karl Popper: “The classical view of the philosophy of science is that it is the goal of science to prove hypotheses like “All swans are white” or to induce them from...
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Proving that black is white
Last week I was going through some old files, and presentations, in a vague effort to clean up my computer. Whilst looking a one of many thousands of studies I had filed away I came across this paper:...
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Who shall guard the guardians?
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?) Mainstream medicine increasingly relies on Guidelines. Well, they are called guidelines, but increasingly they carry the force of law. In many countries if you try to...
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The most unutterable balls
A couple of night’s ago, I was watching a programme called ‘Long Live Britain’ on the BBC, co-presented by Phil Hammond. He is a UK doctor whom I greatly admire, and who mostly talks common sense. So I...
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811 deaths and counting
There is a doctor in the USA called Duane Graveline who I know well. He trained as an astronaut, when such things were seen as exciting. He was very much mainstream in his prescribing and thinking...
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Beradinelli-Seip Syndrome – stick that in your pipe and smoke it
We are told, ad-nauseam, that obesity is the main cause of type II diabetes. This, allegedly, follows a very simple causal chain. Obesity > insulin resistance > raised blood sugar levels For...
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How Risky Is A Risk?
[I was contemplating risk the other day, when someone forwarded me an article I wrote a couple of years ago on risk. I think it is still highly relevant to what is happening today with the mangling...
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How medicine now works – or doesn’t.
It may surprise some of you that read this blog that, amongst other things, I still work as a doctor in the jolly old NHS. Yes, one can be a critic and still remain inside the system….although for how...
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A simple Question – that opens a can of worms
A day or so ago I received this e-mail from a doctor in London. Dear Dr Kendrick, I work as a GP in Wandsworth London and I read that you don’t believe that much in cholesterol and CHD. I do agree up...
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What is your blood pressure (BP)?
Central arterial blood pressure (What is it, don’t like it. Pay attention it could save your life) It is a pressure that is measured, almost exclusively, by placing a cuff around one arm – usually the...
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Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How big pharma has corrupted healthcare
A bold title for a blog indeed, but not mine (I almost hasten to add). This is the title of a new book by Professor Peter Gotzsche. I have ordered it, and started to read it. Gotzsche does not hold...
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Too much medicine – dementia
I am, in general, distinctly sceptical about mass screening programmes. Politicians, however, just love them. They use the complex scientific principle of ‘A stitch in time, save nine.’ Or else the...
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Please sign – most important issue
I received this post and felt the immediate need to post it on my blog, to allow as many people as possible to sign a petition to stop pharmaceutical companies hiding adverse event data on their drug...
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Statins do not help you live longer – or do anything much else for that matter
Sometimes you read a thing quickly, and then you have to read it again to make sure you read it right. Yesterday I was sent a copy of a ‘Patient page’ from the Journal of the American Medical...
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So much for scientific debate
I thank Ted Hutchinson for pointing me at this article in the Irish Independent. It appeared on the 5th of October, and I reprint it in full, here. A LEADING vascular surgeon, whose research review...
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Sweden gets it right
I sometimes think that I should go and live in a Scandinavian country. They get so many things right about how to run healthy, equitable, societies. In addition, the people who live there seem more...
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