Now that things are happening less rapidly at Fukushima, I’ve been looking less frequently at the status reports. It became obvious early on that the general aftermath of the earthquake, […]
Year: 2011
Rebecca Welfare on World TB Day: dilemmas in tuberculosis treatment
The weekly multidisciplinary committee on drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) had assembled to discuss the case of a young man who had started treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) 12 months previously. […]
Richard Smith: Working towards universal health coverage
Some one billion people have no access to health care, while each year 150 million experience financial catastrophe and 100 million are pushed into poverty because of having to pay […]
Cheryl Rofer on the nuclear reactors damaged in the Japanese earthquake
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has six reactors. It is located on Japan’s northeast coast, close to the earthquake’s epicenter. A tsunami higher than any anticipated took the plant’s […]
Andrew Burd and professionalism
In a previous posting I talked about professionalism in the context of interprofessional respect and relationships. Like many terms once you start to move away from your own concepts you […]
Sandra Lako: World Water Day in Freetown
On my way to Spur Road this morning I walked past a group of children scooping murky water out of the gutter into some buckets. These buckets were then lifted […]
Liz Wager: Journals that dare not speak their name
There’s a new species of journal lurking in the medical publishing jungle, but it doesn’t seem to have a name. As a zoologist turned writer (ie somebody obsessed by taxonomy […]
Muir Gray: Bye Bye Quality 2.0
I received some criticism for the blog Bye Bye Quality (Hello Value), as a record company might have labelled it, but most reaction was positive. Where it was not this […]
Kailash Chand on the BMA’s opposition to NHS reforms
BMA members rather than the organisation itself called a special representative meeting (SRM) on the 15th March 2011, the second in two decades. Dr Hamish Meldrum, the chair of the […]
Ryuki Kassai from Fukushima: the first seven days of the disaster
First of all, I want to express my deep sympathy for those who lost their loved ones, their houses, their work, their home towns, and their hope by this terrible […]