The phrase "One for all and All for One" was made famous by Andre Dumas in his famous novel the three musketeers. It was used earlier by William Shakespeare in a poem to characterize people who take massive risks, including the poem's villainous king, Tarquin the Proud: "The aim...
The Angelina Effect We don’t always do what we should, the reasons why are often complex. A good example is the recent report from a group in Birmingham looking at statin prescriptions at GP practices. Despite the NICE guidelines in suggesting that adults aged 40 upwards...
We all know exercise is good for us, the recent PURE study looking at the amount of exercise people do has confirmed this scientifically. More and more of us are taking up exercise on a regular basis we can see this by the number of...
Whilst doing the rounds this week I was reminded by a patient once more of the French Paradox. This is the fact that despite eating fatty food and drinking wine the French seem to have lower heart attack rates. He lived in Gascony. This area...