Sitting in the comfort of my room and sipping a cup of tea, I listened to Melinda Gates and others this morning – live. The TedxChange was an event organized […]
Month: September 2010
Edward Davies: Money, money, money
It’s a well known fact that all doctors leave work at 4:30 in a gold Bentley, dispersing £50 notes to the massed peasants. They unwind in the evening by sipping […]
Wim Weber on independent clinical research in Europe
Earlier this month the workshop on the “Future of Independent Academic Clinical research in Europe” took place in the Académie royale de médecine de Belgique, housed in a palace neighbouring King Albert’s in […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 20 September 2010
JAMA 15 Sep 2010 Vol 304 1173 Medical students dominate this week’s JAMA. These are American medical students, who all have degrees in something else before they start medicine, so they […]
Mit Philips on doublespeak in Vienna
The high point of the summer, for those involved in HIV-AIDS, was the Vienna AIDS conference – a perfect mix of evidence, policies, and politics. While some of the scientific […]
Rahim Rezaie: A neglected resource for neglected diseases
What does a recently developed meningitis vaccine, the the anti-malarial drug ASMQ, and balaglitazone have in common? The meningitis vaccine is a partnership involving the Program for Appropriate Technology in […]
Domhnall Macauley on a postgraduate study day at Trinity College, Dublin
Bright eyed students wandered though the ancient cobbled courtyards of Trinity in the September sunshine- bursting with anticipation of the new term. “On Raglan Road on an Autumn Day….” The […]
Andrew Burd on white coats and scrubs in Seoul
I’ve just spent one day at Leicester General Hospital. I worked there in 1980, my first SHO job in general surgery. 105 appendicectomies performed by myself in six months. Those […]
Martin McShane: The boa constrictor of bureacracy
Another request for “urgent” reporting pinged into my inbox today. It is the third or fourth in as many days. At least two were asking for identical information from different […]
Nataly Kelly: The value of a single word
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is a word worth? It seems difficult to quantify. Yet, 30 years ago, a Florida hospital was faced with that […]