Lying on his back, a trail of his drying blood scuffed across the dusty concrete floor, the young boy was alive and screaming. As he drew his knees up to […]
Month: April 2012
Domhnall MacAuley: Cycling spo(o)ked
At the Commonwealth Games I met the cyclists. At the end of each day we grouped together in the television room to watch the edited highlights of the Tour de […]
Tessa Richards: Who is defining patient-centred care?
If the reality of patient care matched the rhetoric of the average “patient-centred” NHS provider it wouldn’t have been necessary for NICE to produce formal guidance on how to improve […]
Martin McShane: Large scale change
Over the last few weeks my reading and listening has made me consider whether we are at a crossroads in understanding and agreeing the purpose and nature of healthcare. Let […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 10 April 2012
JAMA 4 Apr 2012 Vol 307 1394 A special dread settles on me this week as I know I am going to have to write about breast cancer screening. But […]
Richard Smith: Time for medicine to move from “why questions” to “how questions”
A famous paper published in 1993 by Alan Berg of the World Bank asked why the world had done poorly at feeding everybody. Berg had two answers: nutritionists do the […]
Aser Garcia Rada: A good example of transparency for Spanish politicians
On 23 March the Spanish cabinet passed a new draft bill on transparency in public administration, which in other countries is called the Freedom of Information Act. So far Spain […]
Elizabeth Gargon: 2194 visits and 180 days—a challenge and a milestone are hit by the COMET database
Inconsistencies in health research are well documented, affecting anyone trying to use this information to make a choice about healthcare or to cope with the abundance of data generated by […]
Richard Smith: More than a food bank
Food banks in the United States are busy. The Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, which I visited last week as part of the University of Arizona’s conference on global […]
Tiago Villanueva: Taking a renewed look at shoulder injuries
I did something very unusual for a GP last weekend, which was to attend a conference on a highly specific topic, namely shoulder injuries. GP’s in Europe usually have a […]