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Clinical Guideines: The refuge of the destitute

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

If you are not allowed to think beyond the guideline there can’t be any out of the box thinking and there will never be any innovation or creativity in medicine. In some ways the guideline has become the box and doctors no longer feel brave enough to think, let alone act, outside of this box.

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Drug regulation – How does it work?

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

Think of it as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The truth is that was plucked from thin air. Strangely, this figure has never increased, in well over twenty years. It is inflation proof. It is also endlessly flexible. You know it is there, but it can never truly be seen, or pinned down.