It feels like no time at all since we launched PROSPERO. The year has flown by, buoyed by the worldwide support and enthusiasm for the initiative. It has been a […]
Month: March 2012
Edward Davies: This bill is happening. Doctors will need to make it work.
Watching Andrew Lansley at the Nuffield Trust Summit last week was to watch a man surprisingly at ease. The Health Secretary is at the centre of a huge media storm, […]
Muir Gray: Ten essential questions that only systems can answer
I have met clinicians and patients in many parts of England in the last five years and here is a list of the type of questions that cannot be answered. […]
Richard Smith and Melanie Lovell: Should doctors respect patients’ requests not to know?
What follows is an email debate between Melanie Lovell, a palliative care physician in Sydney, and Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ and chair of Patients Know Best. The […]
Peter Bailey: The King’s Shilling
David Cameron and Andrew Lansley assert that a large majority of GPs support their bill. Is it true? Where is the evidence? Is the profession lined up in willing support, […]
Peter Lapsley: Eat your heart out, Hippocrates
Hippocrates (c.460 BC–370 BC) is often described as “the father of modern medicine.” Wise and knowledgeable though he was, he was, in truth, a late-comer. The medicine of the ancient […]
Kaz de Jong: What is a traumatic experience if you live in Mogadishu?
The woman in front of me in the clinic looked worried. Her child, a small creature, was struggling to resist efforts to measure his weight. She was worried about him […]
Nicola While on the free movement of doctors in the EU
Revising the rules on the free movement of professionals throughout Europe is one of the cornerstones of the European Commission’s strategy to make the EU more competitive and less bureaucratic. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 5 March 2012
NEJM 1 Mar 2012 Vol 366 777 There is no JAMA this week, and the best things in the New England Journal come right at the start. Whether you are […]
Trish Groves: TED 2012 Full spectrum
Chris Anderson, TED’s curator, told us on day 1 that this would be the most ambitious TED conference yet and, for its organisers, the most terrifying because speakers had been […]