Singer Cheryl Cole may turn out to be the most famous person to get malaria in 2010, but of course she’s not the only one. And more importantly, she’s hardly […]
Month: July 2010
Sandra Lako: An introduction
When I was two years old my parents moved onboard the M/V Anastasis, a hospital ship run by the organisation Mercy Ships, which provided relief and medical services to communities […]
Emily Spry: Does Freetown really exist?
I’m back in London after spending nearly a year working in the national Children’s Hospital in Sierra Leone, West Africa, one of the poorest countries in the world. It […]
Beth Cherryman: A graduate tax
Business secretary Vince Cable has proposed a “graduate tax” as a solution to university funding. Graduates will be taxed according to some percentage of their income (once earning over £15,000 […]
Julian Sheather on public health: complex problems, simple truths – the case of Sebastian Kneipp
Near universal consensus then that we are in the grip of a public health disaster. Daily the evidence mounts: obesity, smoking, alcohol abuse, our very lives are killing us. And […]
Richard Smith: Can you ask a patient anything?
Can a doctor ask a patient anything? In the Netherlands the answer seems to be “yes.” Doctors tend not to think so, but at a meeting between doctors and patients […]
Chris Ham on GP commissioning
In a recent speech to the BMA, Andrew Lansley argued that separating the management of care from the management of resources was a fundamental weakness, adding “examples in America of […]
Richard Lehman’s journal blog, 19 July 2010
JAMA 14 July 2010 Vol 304 163 The classic hero of palliative care used to be the personal doctor who turned up in the middle of the night to administer […]
James Clark on health provision for asylum seekers
The person I was speaking to turned to me with tears in her eyes and whispered, in her broken English: “I’m scared. I been scared for so long.” I had […]
David Payne on Raoul Moat and Desert Island Discs
The sorry saga of fugitive gunman Raoul Moat has no doubt triggered countless watercooler conversations about the extent to which he was “mad, bad, or just plain evil.” A colleague […]