I just shared a sofa with a 25-year-old Canadian inventor, a Texan neuroscientist turned fiction writer who authored a recent BMJ editorial on synaesthesia, a former lawyer and journalist who […]
Month: February 2010
Georg Röggla on avalanches
The avalanche danger level was the second highest possible this week in most parts of the Alps. But the warning did not help: six alpinists died in avalanches within 24 […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Lasting memories
Memory is short. I learned this early when, as a junior doctor, my consultant retired. He was a legend, irreplaceable, the backbone of the hospital. But, it takes less than […]
Richard Smith: Reducing chronic disease in Pakistan
Pakistan, like most developing countries, is experiencing rapidly rising rates of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and it has developed a draft national plan for countering […]
What we’re reading 5 February 2010
In the BMJ editorial office, we often come across interesting articles, blogs, and web pages. We thought we would share these with you. Some are medical, some techie, and some […]
Richard Smith: The power of women in Pakistan
I’ve been in Pakistan teaching around 30 young women on the day that the Taliban has bombed a girls’ school in north west Pakistan killing three girls and injuring another […]
Muza Gondwe: Risky media sensationalizations and my African death risk
What do risky media sensationalizations and my African death risk have in common? They are the remaining mental imprints of the two lectures I have attended so far in the […]
Tony Delamothe asks: Are public schools a blight on British society?
Compared with 7% of the population who went to private school (in the UK known as “public” schools, for historical reasons), 50% of doctors did, with the proportion not budging these […]
Julian Sheather: In praise of minor ailments
I have just been ill. Not very ill. Not ‘under the doctor’. Just a lingering cold, a touch of manflu. In the end I took a day off. I woke […]
Laura James on performing medicine
A fellow medical student held onto my arm and marched me across the seminar room, first in one direction and then another. Dragged and tripped all over the place, I […]