10 Apr
Iodine supplements during pregnancy could be a dangerous practice in places with normal and medium level de iodine food content. Spanish data show that iodine supplements are associate with problems of the thyroid gland (in the female) and problems in the psychological-motor development of the offspring (girls). Iodine supplements to pregnant women. Gérvas J. Marzo [...]
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 [...]
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.
7 Apr
“General Practitioners with Special Interests” (GPwSI) is a British initiative about waiting list. Voluntary GP develop specialists clinics, for his patients and those of their colleages. They devote part time and expertice to some problem or patient (minor surgery, diabetes and so on) so in some way work as specialists, and patients are refered to [...]
