Sports medicine’s top ten. The keynote speaker had to drop out – could I give a talk about the top papers in 2010 at the UK sports and exercise medicine meeting […]
Month: November 2010
Jeffrey Aronson: 6/60 Vision: Celebrating the BNF and BNFC
Thursday 18 November. To BMA House to celebrate the publication of the 60th issue of the British National Formulary (BNF) and the 6th issue of its paediatric counterpart, the BNF […]
Richard Smith: We need more Tweeters
Far too few people Tweet. I’ve just been teaching a class on getting published in Buenos Aires, and only one of 60 researchers Tweeted. “Writing and publishing the paper,” I […]
Liz Thiebe: Lessons from Seattle: dealing with the challenge ahead
Every year I lead a group of health care leaders on a study trip of medical and other organisations in Seattle, an American city with a rich and diverse health care […]
Desmond O’Neill: An appalling (Irish) vista
It is sad that the memory of Lord Denning, the eminent jurist, will always be associated with the unhappy phrase “appalling vista,” pronounced during the appeal hearing of the Birmingham […]
Jonathan Segal: Are we creating a generation of uninspired doctors?
So the time has come for junior doctors to plunge themselves into a specialist career. Should this be time for excitement? Time to step up to commitment? Or time to […]
Julian Sheather: On the terrible instability of opinion
We live in momentous times. Foundations are being shaken; long-held assumptions overthrown. The relationship between citizen and state is being redrawn. Consider only the health service. So much that seemed […]
Simon Wright: How do we make health systems sexy?
Through all the changing fashions in donor attention, Save the Children has always pointed out that building a functioning health system must be the basis of development work. Then it does not matter […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Comprehensivists vs partialists at NAPCRG
Innovative primary care pilot programmes are big news in the US. Money talks, and from a business perspective, primary care is good value. So good, that Paul Grundy’s (US) company IBM […]
Martin McShane: Gentlemen or players (and fish farms)
The concerns expressed by the new chair of the RCGP about the difficulties which GPs might face, in taking on commissioning, are pertinent. There is always a tension between being […]