The 1920s and 1930s was an era of social and political revolution, and a switch of attitude on public health was indicative of the changing approach to public policy. The […]
Month: February 2012
Richard Vize on the commission on dignity in care for older people
The consultation document published today by the Commission on Dignity in Care for Older People has powerful messages about the role of hospital doctors and the training of doctors and […]
Harriet Vickers: David Hockney’s crusade against tobacco regulation
David Hockney’s one-man crusade against tobacco regulation has struck again. Fresh off the back of critical acclaim for his use of an iPad to capture the Yorkshire landscape, he’s used […]
John Gabbay: “We’ll never re-elect you if you wreck our NHS”
So why would a retired professor of public health decide to write a protest song, get his kids to help him record it, his wife to help him with the […]
Peter Bailey: Hot frogs jump
Biology A level classes in the 1970s often involved frogs making the ultimate sacrifice for the benefit of their dissector’s knowledge of what lies beneath the amphibian skin. As far […]
Richard Smith: Talking death with a CCG
Recently I had the privilege of talking with the members of an emerging clinical commissioning group (CCG). (For those who don’t know, CCGs are groups of GPs who will have […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 27 February 2012
JAMA 22 Feb 2012 Vol 307 813 When an Italian team of physicists reported that they had detected neutrinos travelling faster than light, the televisual physicist Jim Al-Khalili promised to […]
Marge Berer: In defence of abortion on a woman’s request, including on grounds of fetal sex
Ach, what a furore. The Daily Telegraph is in its element and having a ball printing nasty allegations about doctors doing abortions illegally on grounds of sex selection. Let’s look […]
Andrew Jones: Transforming patient care using technology
A search on one fantastic piece of technology, the internet, suggests that technology can be defined as “…the application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives.” When I think […]
Peter Bailey: poisoned chalice
It is now just over three weeks since I saw my last patient, hung up my stethoscope, and retired. A GP with time to think! Just imagine what might happen. […]