There is no doubt that Hong Kong is going through an identity crisis. Those who have had teenage children will appreciate the mood swings and the irrational emotionality of the […]
Month: January 2012
Edward Davies: Hysteria. There, I said it.
Oh, behave. I got some grief for saying on a previous blog that some of the criticism of health reform was a bit “hysterical.” I felt a little chastened. I […]
Domhnall MacAuley: On the rocks
The captain made a mistake. We don’t know why; misjudgement, show boating, foolishness. After hitting the rocks, he seemed to ignore the consequences, delaying action, almost pretending it didn’t happen, […]
Toby Hillman: Why do doctors get involved in leadership?
There can be a lot of disagreement when it comes to healthcare management and leadership. There are competing views about how far all doctors can be trained to be leaders, […]
Muir Gray: How doctors working in systems could rescue healthcare
“We have nothing as bad as America’s worst, and nothing as good as America’s best,” wise words said to me by someone many years ago, and this principle has stood […]
Elena Hazelgrove-Planel: Applying for a job as a junior doctor in France
27 October 2010—sitting in a plane taking off from Paris, flicking through the Lonely Planet to Guadeloupe that I had just bought at the airport, I cast my mind over the […]
Anita Jolly on the BMJ Group Awards clinical commissioning team of the year
Clinical commissioning team of the year: embracing change to deliver patient care Should it become law later this year, the proposed Health and Social Care Bill will result in significant […]
Richard Smith: Thoughts on a shoeshining
One of the experiences that has made me think the most in the past week was having my shoes shined in Queretaro, Mexico. It was the lavish care, almost love, […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 23 January 2012
JAMA 18 Jan 2012 Vol 307 265 Cangrelor is one of a number of reversible thienopyridine platelet inhibitors competing to replace clopidogrel. This could be an enormous market, but the […]
Hannah Bass on healthtalkonline.org
The award-winning experiential health website, healthtalkonline.org, launched a new section devoted to carers of people with a terminal illness on Wednesday. The website’s real life stories are proving a valuable […]