10 Apr
Flu H2N2 is presented as a terrible epidemic in the XX century, with one and half million deads from 1957 to 1968. But this data only give an impression of severity as we can expect around five millions with a “normal” seasonal flu in this period of time. Flu H2N2, mortality and vaccination. Gérvas J. [...]
5 Oct
Swine flu was managed is such a way by World Health Organization and national authorities that created panic. At the end of the epidemic WHO and national authorities did not do an analytical exercise to examinate their errors. So they were not errors but a world campaign of “disease mongering”. The Spanish case of the [...]
15 Sep
In the Internet era being a human and scientific physician is even a more important question than previously. In this open letter to a student of first year the author review the foundation of physicians’ work and promote a style of a professional who loves their duties. Why become a doctor if there’s Internet? Open [...]
15 Aug
Ignorance is frequently the rule in between neighbours. This study focus on political borders as scientific barries with data from Portuguese and Spanish publications in the field of General Practice. Spanish authors fully ignore their Portugueses colleages which in turn cited them just in low percentage. Both use to cite English papers, as the European [...]
19 Jan
Prevention is an activity which frequently has is foundation in patients´fear and the doctor’ s guilt. So confronting prevention in many cases doctors and patients lose the scientific point of view. Clinical prevention: patients´ fear and the doctor’ s guilt. Gérvas, J., Heath, H., Durán, A., Gené, J., Members of the Seminar of Innovation 2008. [...]
2 Nov
Presentation for the Second Virtual Congress of General Practice and Family Medicine (2009) about self-learning and the Internet. Key questions are perseverance, asking good questions during the clinical encounter and do not use self-compassion as an excuse (“I have no time today”). Download presentation here.
31 Oct
Swine flu vaccination, better natural immunity than artificial one. Gripe A, mejor la enfermedad que la vacuna / Swine flu vaccination, better natural immunity than artificial one. Gérvas, J., Wright, J. [Notas clínicas]. Septiembre de 2009. Download English version here. Please may we have an RCT now?. Gérvas, J., Wright, J. BMJ 2009; 339: b4651. [...]
