Firsthand personal experience of a great crime can make it real in a way that full intellectual understanding will not. Spend two hours in close contact with an African AIDS […]
Month: September 2009
Joe Collier on the need for ‘oholisms’
From the outside, most people appear to conduct themselves in a normal, essentially humdrum, manner. However, in many (possibly most) of us there are odd, and often secret, compulsive behavioural […]
Fiona Godlee: Why we’ve joined 10:10
I’ve just signed up, on behalf of the BMJ Group, to a commitment to cut our carbon footprint by 10% by the end of 2010. For more information on the […]
Helen Carnaghan: ENT is like a lady’s handbag – you never know what you might find!
I am now working in the department of ear, nose and throat (ENT) and I have come across my all time favourite medical saying: “A thyroid is like a lady’s […]
Tom Nolan: Swine flu estimated to be 100 times more virulent than seasonal flu
PLOS Currents: Influenza is a journal with a difference. Mixing features of a journal with those of blogs and discussion forums it’s bound to ruffle some feathers. It describes itself […]