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The BMJ Today: Clinical challenges
When my patients with acute stroke develop a urinary tract infection, I often prescribe a course of co-trimoxazole (trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole). Many of these patients have hypertension and are also taking an […]
Cordelia Galgut: Emotional support through breast cancer
Before being diagnosed with primary breast cancer myself, aged 49 in 2004, I would offer emotional support to women with this diagnosis, and arrogantly assume I understood pretty well what […]
Suzie Bailey: Strategy development – starring role or chorus line?
Is “transformation” one of the most overused words in relation to the NHS and the issues it faces? Just last week, I heard a NHS deputy CEO joke that the […]
The BMJ Today: Leapfrogging—the new buzzword in healthcare
It is easy to take universal health coverage for granted if you were born and raised in a European country, for example. But in low and middle income countries, people […]
Sarah Knowles et al: Hacking into health research
Patients get called a lot of things these days. Simon Stevens, for example, referred to them as the “renewable energy” of health services. The NHS White Paper called them “the […]
William Cayley: Overdiagnosis, uncertainty, and epistemology
Many thanks to Anita Jain for reporting on the “Overdiagnosis” session at the Cochrane Colloquium—I wish I could have been there. The suspicion that overdiagnosis (or at least over testing) […]
The BMJ Today: Is milk good for you?
America’s iconic “Got Milk?” campaign was pulled this year after a successful run of over 20 years. Graced by the likes of Bill Clinton, Naomi Campbell, Elton John, David Beckham, […]
Bernard Merkel: U-turn on the European Commission’s health portfolio still leaves unfinished business
It is not often that an issue about how the European Commission is organised in relation to a specific part of its work on health comes to the top of […]
David Zigmond: NHS stewardship—the missing personal factor
In healthcare our systems of governance are increasingly developed and vaunted. Yet these are very different from our capacities for stewardship. Inevitably and predictably, the recent party political conferences each […]