It is often said of military planners that they spend their time preparing to fight the last battle, not the next one. The same could be said of regulators. Take […]
Year: 2009
Phil Hilton on men’s health
So inevitably as a middle-aged family man with a home in the suburbs of North London I meet health professionals over dinner. ‘This is Peter, he’s a consultant anaesthetist…’ my […]
Choose your own swine flu adventure
The pandemic continues to spread throughout all corners of the world, with Serbia and Iraq getting their first cases yesterday. In the UK the West Midlands still lead the way […]
Olivia Roberts: “Lies, damn lies, and statistics”
The recently released World Health Organisation statistics on progress to meeting the health-related Millennium Development Goals reveal little progress in some areas. But closer analysis reveals some huge achievements and […]
Tom Nolan’s flu blog
The media’s interest in H1N1 may have declined, but the number of cases appears to be on the increase, and not just in the southern hemisphere where we’re told to […]
Vidhya Alakeson on affordable health choices in the US
An audible gasp went around Washington last week when the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its first estimate of the cost of healthcare reform: $1 trillion. The cost seemed all […]
Stephen Ginn on antidepressants: psychiatrists only?
Recently I saw a patient who has problems with use of multiple recreational drugs and alcohol. The patient had never seen a psychiatrist before, but has been taking an antidepressant for the past few years. This is […]
Richard Smith’s HealthCamp for innovators
I associate camps with wood smoke, burnt sausages, and filled latrines marked with crosses, but HealthCamp is different. It’s about innovation, and I attended my first one last week—at the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal blog, 23 June 2009
Richard fancied a change, so is currently blogging on BMJ Group’s new professional networking site for doctors, doc2doc. You can read his weekly journal watch blog there. This week he turns his attention […]
Richard Smith’s first days as a doctor
The Student BMJ is asking, via Twitter, for accounts of people’s first days as a doctor, and their request has for me brought back painful and partially suppressed memories. I […]