I’ve always thought of myself as a feminist and have never consciously made career decisions based on my gender. However, male medical colleagues often comment that my Jackie O-inspired work […]
Year: 2011
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 9 May 2011
JAMA 4 May 2011 Vol 305 1769 When I first started writing comments on the medical journals in 1998, coronary artery bypass surgery had become the commonest major operation in […]
Research highlights – 6 May 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 […]
Siddhartha Yadav: Diagnosing and treating the “Nepalese” microbes
A large portion of my work as a doctor in Nepal is to treat infections. Even in chronic conditions – COPD, diabetes, malignancy – I find that infectious micro-organisms take the […]
Daniel Palazuelos on community health workers
Consider this proposal to address firefighting disparities: “The problem of fires in resource poor areas is growing. Even though we’ve had the tools to control fire for years—namely water, buckets, and […]
Tiago Villanueva: Medical students should be guaranteed a job on leaving medical school
I’ve recently read with great interest the “for” and “against” debate in BMJ Careers on whether doctors should have a guaranteed job upon qualifying from medical school. It sounds reasonable […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Enjoying exams
Waking to a hint of bacon frying as the morning sun slanted shadows on the croquet lawn outside. It was the day of the clinical examinations at the MSc in […]
Richard Smith: Lunch with 90 health ministers in Moscow
Last week I enjoyed myself facilitating a lunchtime meeting of 90 health ministers at a meeting in Moscow on non-communicable disease. The meeting, like all global meetings, was something of […]
Peter Lapsley: Little things that matter
The past week spent as an in-patient in the Charing Cross Hospital in West London served mainly to reinforce my respect and admiration for the staff there. Once again (this […]
Elizabeth Loder: The medical conference of the future
There’s nothing like a gigantic medical meeting to make one feel inconsequential. I certainly did as I milled about the cavernous San Diego convention center with thousands of other doctors […]