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Charles Arthur's avatar

Also, this is Ben Goldacre's second big data project in the NHS (that I know of): the first was OpenPrescribing (https://openprescribing.net/), which gave an overview down to GP level of what was being prescribed where.

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Katie Lee's avatar

James, spare a thought for poor Samuel Pepys who, without anaesthesia, had a bladder stone the “size of a tennis ball” removed using a scoop inserted into a cut in his perineum (which was never stitched up). The only good news about this tale is that tennis balls were a bit smaller back then.

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