Gray: Muir

Muir Gray JA, Evidence-Based Healthcare. How to make health policy and management decisions. Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone, 1997 1-270. 

Sackett DL, Rosenberg WMC, Muir Gray JA, Haynes RB, Richardson WS. Evidence-based medicine What it is and what it isn t. BMJ 1996 312 71-2. 

G.D. Muir and W.G. Moss (with E. Browning), in "Laboratory Handbook of Toxic Agents", (Ed. C.H. Gray), Royal Institute of Chemistry, London, 1960, p.37. 

Smart D, Gunthorpe MJ, Jerman JC, Nasir S, Gray J, Muir AI, Chambers JK, Randall AD, Davis JB (2000) The endogenous lipid anandamide is a full agonist at the human vanilloid receptor (hVRl). Br J Pharmacol 129 227-230... 

In a characteristically provocative article Muir Gray (Gray, 1999) describes the features of what he calls post-modern medicine - a distrust of science, a readiness to resort to litigation, a greater attention to risk and better access to information (of whatever quality). He also points out, as indeed have many commentators, how consumer and patient values have already replaced paternalistic and professional values, and where doctors used to lead, they now follow. The monolithic role of the doctor has been challenged by lay experts, whose ability to influence public debate and policy increases just as that of the doctor or scientist diminishes - the lay expert may be the survivor of a disaster or the sufferer from a disease (Bury, 1998). The Gulf War veteran may fulfil both roles. 

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