As the mother of a severely disabled child and a psychiatrist working with learning disabled children, I was particularly interested in this BBC documentary which highlights the enormous challenges families […]
Month: November 2009
Bev Collin on priorities for tackling malnutrition
With the World Food Summit happening this week in Rome, and thinking about my experience of working in the field of malnutrition, two very strong images came to mind. […]
Andrew Rouse and Tom Marshall: Informed consent, the doctor and H1N1 immunisation
How does a doctor obtain informed consent for H1N1 immunisation consistent with General Medical Council guidance? The Department of Health’s guidance does not provide sufficient information for this. This is […]
Domhnall MacAuley on unexpected outcomes
You have got to do something. Young mothers and their babies living in socially deprived areas do poorly. Isolated, unprepared, and hard to reach; the obvious way to help is […]
Vidhya Alakeson on Medicaid
Medicaid is typically thought of as the health insurance program for the poor. But when it was created in the 1960s, it was designed to cover only three low income […]
David Payne on hypoxia, Everest-style
Dan Martin undresses in 20-knot winds beneath the Everest summit to prepare for a femoral artery blood sample and muscle biopsy while a team of sherpas look on, entertained by […]
Harry Brown on electronic communications with patients
Patient and doctor interactions are one of the cornerstones of medical care and with the advent of modern technology, there is now more than one way for doctors and patients […]
Mary E Black on flu suits and holy water dispensers
Plagues create business opportunities and the worried well in any era present a commercial opportunity. In the Middle Ages, the Black Death and the Great Plague saw brisk sales in […]
Peter Lapsley: Degrees of care
There have been mixed messages from the Patients Association in response to the announcement of plans for nursing in England to become an all-graduate profession. Writing in The Times on […]
Frances Dixon on medical professionalism
I was flicking through my Student BMJ the other day when I came across an article on Medical Professionalism. This is a subject that I have been thinking about recently, […]