I was at the Liverpool Medical Institution recently, judging a debating competition between medical students from Manchester and Liverpool. […]
Month: March 2010
Domhnall MacAuley: A full Irish breakfast and a pint of Guinness
A full Irish breakfast and a pint of Guinness. The perfect Easter brunch. But, not on Good Friday. The pubs are closed in Ireland on two days of the year; […]
Eleanor Chrispin: Memory
Who hasn’t, in a moment of regret, wished they could turn back the clock? While time travel remains out of our grasp, the ability to erase certain memories – not […]
Richard Smith: Run for your life
What will you be doing on 6 April? There is a high chance that you’ll spend much of the day sat in front of a computer, perhaps seeing patients at […]
What we’re reading: 26 March 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 […]
Emily Spry: The strike continues
After 11 days, the total strike of all government healthcare workers in Sierra Leone has finally been elevated to a BBC World Service African news headline. Yesterday, the President called […]
K.M. Venkat Narayan: Diabetes: Has the Dragon trumped the Elephant?
“China pips India as the world’s most diabetic nation” ran the headlines in Hindustan Times (March 26, 2010). It almost sounded as if India’s pride had been hurt. Such a […]
Richard Smith: Is the NHS three times better than in 1979?
Reading the accounts in the BMJ of how various doctors and mangers would make savings in the NHS, I thought back to a series based on the same idea that […]
Martin McShane: Paragraph 142, page 33
The non-executive asked a simple question; “Why can’t we just say no?” In the world of business they inhabit, this is a rational question. We were on one of our […]
Muza Gondwe: The Royal African Science Prize
The audience falls deathly silent in the flamboyantly adorned grand hall where scientists from across Africa have congregated to hear the announcement. Meanwhile, in distant homelands people crowd around televisions and […]