Monthly Archives: August 2016

CrowdMed – an exciting discovery?

We’ve got not the slightest doubt that in the near future, if we have symptoms that are other than completely straight forward, we’ll turn to organisations like CrowdMed first to provide an accurate diagnosis of what we have rather than … Continue reading

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Catherine King MP 2

Further to this post. A 25 Aug 2025 update: 360 every week being killed and 1,000 every week being permanently injured by medical error are pretty big numbers, wouldn’t you agree? You’d think that the politicians would be able to respond … Continue reading

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Modern diagnosis 3

We read once that in the year 1900 50% of the American population was involved in producing food, and now it’s 3% – huge tractors, huge ploughs, huge seeding and harvesting machinery in the place of things like farmers walking … Continue reading

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Modern diagnosis 2

Further to this post, the same article has this paragraph in it:- See this Wikipedia article on “Watson” and see this paragraph in it:- It would be interesting to know how “Watson” has progressed in the three and a half years since … Continue reading

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Modern diagnosis 1

See this article. CrowdMed, (misspelt in the article,) could be of incredible interest to some. It has a website, and a Wikipedia article on it. (See this comment in this Wikipedia article – “Medical regulatory experts are also skeptical of the … Continue reading

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The Medical Profession in NSW/Australia – dealing with 26

This is a link to an article with this heading:- and there are lots of similar articles around. One of them claims the epidemic has already resulted in 45 deaths in NSW. We have long believed that, when something like … Continue reading

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Catherine King MP 1

Three days ago we emailed this letter to Ms Catherine King. Ms King is the Shadow Minister for Health and Medicare in the Federal Parliament. We would have thought that claims that medical error is causing over 360 to die every … Continue reading

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Dr Andrew James Brooks – Sydney Urologist 6

When a complaint was made to the NSW Privacy Commissioner, Elizabeth Coombs, that Dr Andrew Brooks had ignored about 5 letters emailed to him by a former patient requesting copies of his health records and information to which he was … Continue reading

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The Medical Profession in NSW/Australia – dealing with 25

We are constantly being told what a marvellous health care system we have in NSW/Australia, especially by the medical professional organisations like the Australian Medical Association, in particular how great all our GPs are. (We’re not sure what they’re saying … Continue reading

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Penrith Skin Cancer Foundation

This is from the front page of this clinic’s website as at today, 17 Aug 2016 However! Firstly, If you use this link you will be taken to a page on the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission’s website, on which it … Continue reading

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