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Year: 2011
Albert Jovell: challenges for the Spanish healthcare system
A 75 year old man who was diagnosed with coronary heart disease when he was 60, and has been treated with medication since, represents a typical patient in primary care […]
Neil Chanchlani: Why composite patients just won’t do
Whenever I read a story or novel about doctor and patient interactions, I’m often bewildered. Primarily out of interest, but also because I feel like I’ve been short changed. How […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Leaving Christmas behind
Dark, quiet, and desolate. At 7.45 am on the mornings after Christmas, the streets look sad and neglected. A few Christmas lights blink unconvincingly. No traffic, no pedestrians, no kids […]
Hugh Risebrow: Am I doing the right thing helping a girl go to the US for treatment?
I am running the Dubai marathon in January to help raise money to pay for a 2 year old girl with cerebral palsy to go to the US for an […]
Scott Fraser: Work experience
After a hard morning interviewing enthusiastic young people who wanted to get into medical school I went for a coffee. These days this is a highly complicated business. Did I […]
Saleyha Ahsan: Doctors on strike in Tripoli
An uneasy calm rests on Tripoli these days. A lack of effective security is having disruptive consequences. Recently local doctors took matters into their own hands by shutting down their […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Chicago. General practice, and all that Jazz
Chicago. A compelling show. An intriguing narrative based on real events. Posters advertising the musical, with its ever changing cast, greet me like an old friend on the escalators of London’s […]
Stephen Ginn: Military medicine
War may not be good for much, but it has proved to be an effective incubator for innovation. I’m not just talking about the Slinky: the development of nylon, polythene, […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 28 December 2011
JAMA 21 Dec 2011 Vol 306 2567 Amongst all the awful things that can befall human beings, poor sleep seems but a trivial inconvenience. Well, maybe: it merely doubles one’s […]