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Giles Maskell

Giles Maskell: The curse of the priors

May 14, 2021

I used to joke that radiology is getting easier because as we carry out more and more imaging, soon everyone will have a previous scan with which to compare. The […]

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Giles Maskell: And that’s an order!

January 29, 2021

“I’ve just ordered a scan.” “Re-quested. You’ve just requested a scan.” This exchange between junior doctor and radiologist takes place countless times every day in hospitals across the UK. It’s […]

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Giles Maskell: True candour

November 25, 2019

Currently the approach taken to duty of candour implies a false dichotomy between “things going well” and “mistakes being made” […]

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Giles Maskell: Introducing Rad-u-Like

July 26, 2019

Giles Maskell takes a satirical look at providing feedback for doctors […]

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Giles Maskell: The joy of local   

June 3, 2019

One of the most pressing needs for doctors is to rediscover the joy of practising medicine […]

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Giles Maskell: How can we combat fraud in the NHS?

April 5, 2019

Some of our efforts in combating fraud should go into attempting to shift the moral baseline of the majority […]

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Giles Maskell: A really stupid mistake

February 12, 2019

As a radiologist I’m used to getting things wrong, but this one shook me up a bit […]

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Giles Maskell: Time to put place based rivalry to rest

October 18, 2018

No one is by definition a better doctor because they work at a particular site […]

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Giles Maskell: Scanxiety

August 23, 2018

We are all going to be feeling more of it in the future […]

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Giles Maskell: Incidental anarchy

May 22, 2018

It is a truism in radiology that the more we image the more we will find. Some of it will help to advance the patient’s health, but much of it […]

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