I have a weekly teleconference with GPs from our emergent consortia. We set this up a while back to try and keep up with events, nix rumours and misconceptions and, […]
Month: December 2010
Helen Macdonald: Light reading over the festive season for the e-portfolio
I was considering what I might learn (if anything) over the Christmas period on a chilly cycle home last night. It has been an intermittent and nagging thought for some […]
Vasiliy Vlassov: In the name of Pirogov
Recently Russia celebrated the 200th birthday of Nikolay Pirogov. He is one of Russia’s most esteemed physicians, famous for his surgical skills and teaching, research in clinical anatomy, and especially […]
Des O’Neill: Christmas, South Park, health, and pluralism
When the largest teaching hospital in Dublin removed the Christmas crib from its atrium a few years ago, the response to the resulting public outcry suggested a timorous confusion about […]
Trish Groves: IDEAL innovation in surgery
No two operations are the same, not least because the surgeon starts each new one with some additional experience and knowledge gained during the previous one. But what counts as […]
Tony Delamothe: Illustrating the Christmas issue
Articles almost select themselves for the Christmas issue. The ones with any chance of publication get externally peer reviewed, and the survivors get discussed by our five person editorial committee. […]
Rahij Anwar and Nitish Gogi: Fractures in snow: Are we better equipped this time?
Earlier this year, I (RA) slipped on ice on my rather steep drive. The result was an electric shock like sensation from head to toe and a sore neck. I […]
Harriet Vickers on assisted dying in the theatre: A review of Bea
Assisted death is a very visible issue right now. As parliaments struggle with the dilemma about whether or not to legalise helping someone to die, more and more individuals are stepping […]
Tracey Koehlmoos: Arrive alive – road traffic fatalities in Bangladesh
Two weeks ago, while travelling outside of Dhaka, I passed the remnants of an accident that had left a man dead on the road. It was a jarring sight and […]
Sandra Lako: Journal club
Today was the launch of the journal club at the Ola During Children’s Hospital. Two professors, seven national doctors and three expatriate doctors sat together in an office for the […]