“Only two things that money can’t buy, and that’s true love and homegrown tomatoes.” So sings Guy Clark in his cult country-western song. He was right about that last year, […]
Month: August 2010
Richard Smith: A flare up of burnout
The German speaking world is having a flare up of burnout. The media are full of stories on burnout, and 150 000 school pupils in Austria are said to be […]
Chris Ellis on the strike in South Africa
A nationwide strike of government employees started last week here in South Africa and looks to have serious repercussions for the health care sector. I am a semi-retired general practitioner but have sessions […]
Domhnall MacAuley on the “back then” brigade
Reading the Times (Wed 11 August), it was clear I was mistaken in thinking they had gone away. The “back then” brigade are back; hankering over the good old days […]
US highlights – 20 August 2010
The BMJ has a new policy of asking authors of eligible research articles to pay a publication fee. It only applies when the funder has already pledged to pay for […]
Research highlights – 20 August 2010
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research […]
Richard Smith: contemplating my deathbed
Through Twitter from my friend Martin I have received a list of the five things that people most commonly regret when dying. This is enormously useful information, much more so […]
Muza Gondwe: glorious nutritious red earth
I watched her from the kitchen window. Clawing away at the crusty anthill in the backyard. She cupped the red earth in her hand and threw it into the back […]
Chris Ham: The first 100 days of the coalition government
The coalition government has moved quickly in its first 100 days to set out its plans for the NHS in England. Although ministers have stressed that these plans build on […]
Sandra Lako on the nurses’ workshop in Freetown.
Recently the Welbodi Partnership was privileged to have a paediatric nurse from the United Kingdom volunteering at the children’s hospital for two months. The volunteer nurse spent the first month […]