There are days when I curse the existence of email. I curse it when I have been training all day yet feel obliged to sit up half the night to […]
Month: August 2010
David Payne asks: Should forensic medicine be female-led?
Since 2000 the Havens centres in London have helped more than 11 000 people of both sexes who have been raped or sexually assaulted. Like many sexual assault referral centres […]
Tracey Koehlmoos: The rationale against ORS fortified with zinc
The SUZY Project aims to introduce dispersible zinc tablets as a treatment for diarrhoea in young children in Bangladesh. Due to my role in the project, I frequently receive questions […]
Martin McShane on boundaries
“How much does the PCT spend on healthcare for people over the age of 65?” the telephone caller enquired. An impossible question to answer accurately, but after a moment’s reflection […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 9 August 2010
JAMA 4 Aug 2010 Vol 304 This week’s JAMA is about the health consequences of violence. These are bad, and these articles just act as gloomy reminders of how bad […]
Tessa Richards: What does the EU do for you?
British doctors worrying about the impact of the chilly financial climate should spare a thought for their European colleagues. In Greece, the Baltic states, Spain, and Ireland, doctors, along with […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Memories of the RCGP at Princes Gate
The floors creaked and groaned, the doors wheezed closed and the windows didn’t shut properly. The rooms wore the tired look of times past and few were en suite. Hidden […]
This week’s research highlights – 6 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: Enter the “liquid journal”
It may be what epidemiologists call “ascertainment bias” (seeing what you want to see), but I detect the beginning of the end of prepublication peer review. The latest death knell […]
Rachel Palmer: Dedication and inspiration in Niger
During the last eight weeks, while I’ve been in Niger, I’ve often been overwhelmed by the scale of the problems people face here. It’s not just the current food crisis […]