High consumption of US crime shows on television distorts social perceptions and promotes common myths. People with a great amount of US-based crime-related television viewing are more likely to be susceptible to misconceptions regarding the death penalty – irrespective of their age, education, or gender. This is the basic finding of a new edition of […]
Children’s own temperament could be driving the amount of TV they watch – according to new research from the University of East Anglia and Birkbeck, University of London. New findings published today show that the brain responses of 10-month-old babies could predict whether they would enjoy watching fast-paced TV shows six months later. The research […]
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Dr Clare Gerada I’m not against medical programmes and I’m not against Embarrassing Bodies. There is a long history of showing our bodies in public dating back centuries to the Ancient Greeks when they extolled the body beautiful. But I’m becoming worried that we are moving from extolling the beautiful body to gawping at the […]
Dr Ian Campbell I don’t agree with Clare and in this matter you are wrong. I was first on TV many years ago when I was saying the Hippocratic Oath at my graduation. It just so happened that the BBC were there filming it so TV doctoring is not a new concept to me. My […]
When I was offered the job as the TV doctor on BBC One’s Doctor in the House series, I was initially torn. As a GP practising in a busy clinic, I take patient care very seriously. It did occur to me that talking to patients live on camera and discussing their health problems could break some […]