John Pickering
The critical 1st 6 months post dialysis - Kidney Punch
Aug 27, 2012 •
Know someone about to start dialysis? I am sitting in a conference hall and have just heard a fascinating talk by Prof Chris MacIntyre about the danger to other organs for those undertaking dialysis. The stress dialysis puts on the vasculature is the culprit. Myocardial stunning can occur in nearly 2 out of 3 paients … Continue reading »
Deserved - Kidney Punch
Aug 22, 2012 •
Colleague Dr Suetonia Palmer just won a prestigious L’Oreal for Women in Science award. She’s one of my “go to people” for nephrological type questions (ie all the stuff I don’t know). This award is very well deserved! The press release on scoop gives all the salient details. Just let me add my bit. What … Continue reading »
Medals per capita is biased - Kidney Punch
Aug 14, 2012 •
The Games are over, let the analysis begin. We’ve had some fun with ranking countries’ performance at the London Olympics according to medals per million (medals per capita) or medals per 100 billion of Gross Domestic Product (see my tables below). As I predicted a few posts back, the medals per capita will be one … Continue reading »
Seeing the big picture - Kidney Punch
Aug 09, 2012 •
Have a read of this blog from a medical student - He/She (not sure which) writes well and writes passionately. Seeing the big picture. Tagged: health, Health care professionals, Hospitals
Grenada grabs gold, NZ relegated to Silver - Kidney Punch
Aug 08, 2012 •
As expected, a country with a small population has grabbed the top medal position when Grenada (population, 104,000) grabbed a gold. WIth a medals per million score of 9.6 they are only likely to be beaten by a country with even smaller population. Meanwhile, Jamaica has moved into 5th position with 5 medals, all in … Continue reading »
A bronze puts New Zealand in Gold medal position - Kidney Punch
Aug 06, 2012 •
The weekend success of a New Zealand rowing pair put them in gold medal position on the medals per capita table. They have now sneaked ahead of Slovenia. Denmark are in bronze medal position with Australia solid in fourth. The big mover over the weekend was Great britain moving from 17th at the end … Continue reading »
North Korea leads the Olympics – Medals per dollar of GDP - Kidney Punch
Aug 06, 2012 •
Do richer countries perform better than poorer? Is sporting prowess more important to a country’s leaders than feeding their population? Or does this table reflect real sporting prowess. You be the judge. North Korea (DPR Korea) leads the medals per US$100 Billion of Gross Domestic Product (2010 figures from the UN statistics), Moldova and Mongolia … Continue reading »
New Zealand surges to Silver - Kidney Punch
Aug 04, 2012 •
On the seventh day they did rest – I think not. Aotearoa a land of couch potatoes – absolutely; sitting down wins medals! Super cyclists and outrageous rowers took New Zealand’s medal tally to six on the seventh day of the London Olympics. All medals have been won sitting down (and two-thirds of them going … Continue reading »
Which is really the best performed Olympic country? - Kidney Punch
Aug 03, 2012 •
Over at Statistics New Zealand the folks have done a great job in producing an alternative medals table for the London Olympics. They are showing the number of medals won per million population. They have kindly shared some of the data with me (thanks people) so that I can produce a few graphs and tables … Continue reading »
$6,126,820 - Kidney Punch
Aug 02, 2012 •
$6,126,820 has been sitting on my fridge for the last two years. I aim to raise this over 20 years so as to continue my research. Yes – I confess, I am the Six million dollar man (Historical reference for those over 40). Sounds a lot of money, but let’s put this in context. Because … Continue reading »