‘No Holds Barred’

This is the last “No Holds Barred” column by Dr Margaret McCartney: Screening is only for people with no symptoms. If you have symptoms it’s not screening. Screening is often … Continue reading ‘No Holds Barred’

Silent as light

The Antiquary: “is preoccupied on every level by the relation between past and present.” Mary Midgley: “These doctrines are often bizarrely over-confident and over-simple” George Orwell in Why I Write: … Continue reading Silent as light

“Bipolarisation”

This is a BMJ response written by me on the 8th June 2011. Four years on and I remain just as concerned about the over-medicalisation of mood disturbance. None of my words take … Continue reading “Bipolarisation”