BMA Decision Explained!

[Tony Raven]

Is this the reason the BMA and many A&E staff say what they do about
cycle helmets?

"There is evidence that hospitals have difficulties distinguishing pedal
and motor cycles, and the TARN data do not show pedal cyclists as a
separate group. In Ward et al.’s (2005) London study, one of the
hospitals was unable to distinguish pedal cycles and motorcycles and
ended up by miscoding both."
p51 of
http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_rdsafety/documents/page/dft_rdsafety_611755.pdf
--
Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

 

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Tony Raven wrote:
> Is this the reason the BMA and many A&E staff say what they do about
> cycle helmets?

I believe the majority that passed that motion at the bma reps meeting
were absolutely ignorant of the facts, not interested, fat car addicts
, thought they were rubber stamping a' good thing'.
Clearly many of them think their head is like a water melon and that's
as much as they can cope with.
These figures are quite beyond them.
They are not all of the doctors, just a proportion of those that prefer
committee meetings to riding their bikes.

TerryJ

 

[Ian Smith]

On 6 Nov 2006, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Clearly many of them think their head is like a water melon and that's
> as much as they can cope with.

I wish that idiot was local - opportunity for local press stirring -
"Dr xyz's approach to patient care - if it works on melons, it's good
enough for my patients".

Even that presupposes that strapping a helmet to the melon in
question would have made a blind bit of difference. I had a spare
melon recently and thought about trying it on camera, but couldn't
find a helmet I didn't want to keep.

regards, Ian SMith
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[Tony Raven]

Ian Smith wrote on 06/11/2006 12:19 +0100:
>
> I wish that idiot was local - opportunity for local press stirring -
> "Dr xyz's approach to patient care - if it works on melons, it's good
> enough for my patients".
>

My current line is "BHIT: does what it says on the tin. Cyclists
following the advice of BHIT, who are campaigning for mandatory cycle
helmets, are more likely to Be Hit according to research by the
University of Bath"

--
Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

 

[burt]

"Tony Raven" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Ian Smith wrote on 06/11/2006 12:19 +0100:
>>
>
> My current line is "BHIT: does what it says on the tin. Cyclists
> following the advice of BHIT, who are campaigning for mandatory cycle
> helmets, are more likely to Be Hit according to research by the University
> of Bath"

Love it!