I was working in Ipswich in a cardiothoracic centre during the 1968-69 ‘Flu epidemic. During the Xmas week end of 1968 I had to be on call from Friday through […]
Month: April 2009
Adrian Gonzalez on swine flu in Mexico
In 2003 I was at the BMJ’s offices in Tavistock Square, London, when China’s SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) epidemic was at its peak. At that time the risk of […]
Richard Lehman’s journal blog, 27 April 2009
This week Richard ponders continuity of care, hibernating myocardium, and whether gluten free bread came before gluten free pasta – or the other way round. […]
Jane Parry on flu
Hong Kongers have lived through more than their fair share of bird flu scares across the border in China over the last few years, and, of course, Sars in 2003 […]
Joe Collier on being bald
I have been bald for most of my adult life. My hair started ‘thinning’ in my late teens. By my early 20s I no longer needed to brush it out […]
Richard Thompson and Frank Wells on prescribing rights for retired UK doctors
The proposed introduction by the General Medical Council (GMC) of compulsory detailed assessment of doctors every five years, perhaps starting in November this year, is difficult for those not regularly […]
Peter Lapsley on the value of patient information evenings
Like many observers of the National Health Service over the past few years, and like many people within it I suspect, I have become weary of the endless succession of […]
Richard Smith on countering the “wicked problem” of the chronic disease pandemic
I spent two days last week in the seductive grandeur of Trinity College, Oxford, fretting about the global pandemic of chronic disease, but I left feeling optimistic—despite the pandemic raging […]
Juliet Walker: BMJ in the news
The timing of organ donation requests and who is making the request may influence a family’s decision to donate a dying relative’s organs. This is the conclusion of a BMJ […]
Richard Smith says make vegetarian food the norm at formal dinners
I’ve just attended a conference on preventing chronic disease, and something that appealed to me greatly was the idea that at all formal dinners (and my how I’ve suffered from […]