I’m not the type to stay at hospital placement all day long, looking around for things to do. Don’t get me wrong; I do the basics: go to lectures, attend […]
Month: November 2010
Kirsten Patrick on 5-a-day fitness
All over the news in the UK recently was a story about The British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine (BASEM) endorsing a “quick training programme designed to address criticism […]
Harriet Vickers: The one in front of me, or all of them out there?
As the government’s white paper promises to change the role and duties of GPs, this week’s King’s Fund conference asked “do clinicians have a responsibility for the population as well […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 29 November 2010
JAMA 24 Nov 2010 Vol 304 2245 It’s a pleasure to start the week with a first class well-conducted study with a clear outcome that will benefit patients. The benefit […]
Julian Sheather: What’s wrong with addiction?
Middle-aged; mid-life; mid-career. Party to the blessings – and the curses – of a young family. A sense that some things have been achieved, some are still to be achieved, […]
Research highlights – 26 November 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 […]
Daniel Palazuelos: Whose community is it anyway?
There is no magic formula for how to work with communities in a way that perfectly balances power sharing with meaningful change.[1] Many of the experiences that I have had […]
Richard Smith: The moment is coming for chronic disease
After years in obscurity, those of us concerned about chronic disease are about to have our moment in the spotlight—at the United Nations High Level Meeting in New York next […]
Louise Kenny: Thanksgiving
It is a joy to be back in Guatemala amongst staff and friends at the hospital and in the town of Santiago. I have fallen straight back into old habits of […]
Tracey Koehlmoos: Murmur of methodological tension at the Symposium
The First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research ended on a crescendo of upbeat promise on the 19th of November, but amid all of the excellence of organisation, content, energy […]