As I lay in Regents Park on Saturday 1 October showing my one year old daughter the falling autumnal leaves and conkers it hardly felt like winter was approaching. Not least because it […]
Month: October 2011
Tiago Villanueva: Quaternary prevention
The primary care innovation seminars group, a primary healthcare think tank that was created in Spain in 2005, convened this weekend in Barcelona. The group used to meet several times […]
Research highlights – 7 October 2011
“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 […]
Joseph Ana: Breast flattening, ironing, straightening, and pounding: a new form of violence against girls and women
Until a few weeks ago, I had never heard about the cultural barbarism of breast flattening, a native attempt to delay the development of a girl’s breasts so that they […]
Maham Khan: Cheating in the foundation application process
Sharing cases and risking places, be careful with whom you discuss your white spaces. As registration for the UK foundation programme opens this week, final year medical students across the […]
Martin McShane: Why?
A frequent refrain is “we mustn’t recreate PCTs.” Increasingly, when I hear or see it said I want to ask five why’s. Let me give you an example. “We don’t […]
Aneez Esmail: Understanding patient safety in general practice
It was a comment that I made in an interview for a BBC 4 File on Four programme that caught the eye of producers at Channel 4’s Dispatches programme. I […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 3 October 2011
JAMA 28 Sep 2011 Vol 306 1329 Intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation reduces left ventricular load and improves outcomes in animal models of myocardial infarction. But in previous small human studies of […]