I began my eight weeks a total novice with only a small amount of previous writing and editing experience. Never did I imagine I would leave as all of the […]
Year: 2011
Desmond O’Neill: One hundred years of flautitude
No geriatrician could pass up on the opportunity: a performance of a flute concerto written by a living composer in his 100th year by one of the greatest orchestras in […]
Martin McShane: Integrated reflections continued
Following our visit to Kaiser Permanente, we travelled north to Seattle and visited the Virginia Mason hospital and Group Health. Linked but distinct, the relationship between the two provided a […]
Nigel Hawkes: Andrew Lansley on your bedside TV
We know that many people occupying hospital beds ought not to be there, either because their earlier care has failed to keep them out or because they can’t be discharged […]
Edward Davies: The health service that cried wolf
Too much hysteria is clouding reasonable criticism If you watched Channel 4 news last night, you could only come away with the impression that the government is waging a secret […]
Richard Smith: Can information technology improve healthcare?
I doubt that anybody within airlines, financial services, or manufacturing goes to meetings to debate whether information technology can improve what they do. It already has. But in healthcare we’ve […]
Martin McShane: Integrated reflections
Sir William Osler advocated the concept of a “quinquennial brain dusting“: which was my justification for taking a week out to visit some integrated care organisations on the West Coast […]
Aser Garcia Rada: Co-payments and privatisation in Spain
Some time ago I wrote a letter to the Spanish daily El Mundo, saying that co-payments –an extra charge for accessing medical services in the public healthcare system, should be […]
Stephen Ginn: Occupy London
Established on 15 October outside St Paul’s and watched over by a statue of Queen Victoria, the Occupy London Stock Exchange (LSX) camp continues its controversial settlement in central London. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 21 November 2011
JAMA 16 Nov 2011 Vol 306 2099 Steve Nissen became something of a hero of mine when he showed how bad data from pharma-funded studies had been used to mask […]