Our report this week on problems with specialty trainee year 3 (ST3) applications is merely the latest in a litany of mediocrity to afflict doctors at every single stage of […]
Month: October 2010
David Payne: Does London need the City?
A young woman started work in London this week and her starting salary is the same figure paid to her aunt when she first moved to the capital after college […]
Elizabeth Loder on the best thing about the Ig Nobel awards
It really was a dark and stormy night as I joined several hundred other geeks and nerds who ignored the remnants of tropical storm Nicole on September 30. We braved […]
Tracey Koehlmoos: Systematic reviews of health systems and policy research – where do they belong?
Just as some people proudly announce that they are alcoholics, I’m proud to tell the world that I am a Cochrane reviewer. There cannot be many BMJ readers who don’t […]
Sarah Walpole: from medic to media – on the health effects of Tar Sands
Seeing the call for medics to attend this year’s Camp for Climate Action, I was keen to lend support for a worthy cause. I’m usually a reluctant responder when it […]
Domhnall MacAuley on Sailing to Byzantium
Yeats’s poem (Sailing to Byzantium), written as he approached old age, looked to the wonders of Byzantium, and its immortal beauty. I would never have dreamt, sitting in that classroom […]
Douglas Noble on maternity care
Five days in hospital for the delivery of our first child was a sobering reminder of the harsh realities of life (our newborn had a post-natal stay on ITU), the […]
David Pencheon: Moral offset
I try to maintain my sanity, like many of us, by rationalising my own behaviour and trying to make sense of the world around me. I get to sleep at […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review, 4 October 2010
NEJM 30 Sep 2010 Vol 363 1303 Spleen tyrosine kinase is an important inflammatory mediator, which for some reason has the abbreviation Syk rather than Stk. The editorial for this […]
Chibuzo Odigwe: How healthy is the giant at 50?
I tend to think of Nigeria as a giant, and with a population of about 150 million, it may be easy to see reason with me. It is once again […]