What’s the matter with care.data? “It’s consent, stupid,” says Margaret McCartney in her latest No Holds Barred column. A leaflet is not sufficient to convey the complex issues around data […]
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Desmond O’Neill: Expanding the imaginarium of ageing
My most formative experience in gerontology was a student gap year in Marseille. A volunteer with Les Petits Frères des Pauvres, a charmingly radical organisation dedicated to improving life for […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—22 April 2014
NEJM 17 Apr 2014 Vol 370 1494 Back in the 1970s, people used to say that we had entered an era of safe surgery and dangerous medicine. I find it […]
The BMJ Today: Respect for international doctors
A cluster of recent articles on bmj.com concern the educational performance of international medical graduates compared with UK graduates. The subject has been hotly debated since the 1980s when it […]
KM Venkat Narayan: Roads in India – a fast growing death trap
Today I received a sad email about a 24 year old family friend who died in a road traffic accident in Mumbai. Rohan Sardar skid on the road while riding […]
William Cayley: Is primary care in the US really the future?
Is primary care really the future? I’d like to say “Yes,” but I’m not so sure… (at least in the USA). There has been much talk and writing about the […]
Julian Sheather: Time to debate the ethics of robot care?
We take it for granted that compassion is at the heart of good care. But what if the hand that reaches out to yours is a robot’s? What if the […]
The BMJ Today: Further adventures of the polypill
Remember the polypill, the combination of several active ingredients in one tablet that promised to revolutionise the prevention of cardiovascular disease? It is a question we have often asked in […]
Jim Murray: Abbvie withdraw case against European Medicines Agency
AbbVie have withdrawn their legal challenge against the release of certain company documents on Humira (adalimunab) by the EMA. This followed an offer by the agency to redact parts of […]
David Oliver: How real life stories can help us understand the challenges of care for older people
On television we can often tell more from peoples’ words or reactions than from any scripted voiceover. In “Protecting our Parents”—a three part BBC 2 documentary, due to be screened […]