Capacity assessments – diagnosis is misleading

Is Movember misleading men?

Movember is a global campaign that asks men to grow moustaches in the 11th month of the year, “with the aim of raising vital funds and awareness of men’s health issues.” The campaign launched in the United Kingdom in 2007 (http://uk. movember.com), with funds going to the Prostate Cancer Charity (now Prostate Cancer UK). In 2010 funds started going also to the Institute of Cancer Research to fu...

neuropsychological assessments in early diagnosis of dementia

neuropsychological studies have demonstrated that preclinical dementia accompanies a decreasing trend in cognitive state a few years prior to clinical diagnosis. sudden decline in episodic memory and semantic knowledge have been found to have the capability to differentiate patients in preclinical state of dementia from those experiencing normal aging. in addition, decline in episodic memory is...

Mental capacity assessments and discharge decisions.

Professionals may have agendas that conflict with the person under their care as their dominant consideration is often safety. This may arise from a genuine concern about welfare, but may also involve fear of litigation from an adverse incident following discharge.

Electric vehicle footprint analysis is misleading.

Tension pneumothorax case report is misleading.

The problem with the recent case report 'Tension pneumothorax mimicking giant emphysematous bullae' 1 is that the patient clearly did not have a tension pneumothorax. He was not particularly unwell and had only a minimal mediastinal shift. A much greater mediastinal shift can be seen in non-tension pneumothorax. 2 The actual definition of tension pneumothorax is not generally agreed. The 2003 B...