Norbs

Spotify’s co-founder backs a hit with preventive body scans Neko Health, whose tech is designed to detect health problems early, has a bulging waiting list for its new clinic in London

Early detection is not prevention!
Highly profitable screening can cause iatrogenic harm: a cascade of intervention and considerable worry and distress for something that was never going to cause harm.
Prevention is lifestyle behaviours, not medicalisation.
www.thetimes.com/article/4a64...

Boyle too!

‘Dear, did you say pastry?’: meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wall Daisy’s dithering frustrates phone fraudsters and wastes time they could be using to scam real people

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...

'The absence of evidence of safety incidents [..] appears to have been misinterpreted by policymakers to mean that there are no safety concerns with the substitution of doctors with PAs. This is an error of logic which, if not corrected, is likely to cost lives.'
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

just back from a long day in acute medical unit/emergency department and it is

Flu/RSV/Covid - Central once again

My own home ward is also full of it

And no shortage of staff sickness either

"Back to the future"