Emerson may have been right when he wrote that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a small mind, but it always sets my teeth on edge when I see […]
Month: August 2012
John Davies: Treating casualties at the London 2012 aquatic centre
John Davies is a consultant anaesthetist in Lancaster, who takes part in motorsport as a competitor and as a rally doctor. He is volunteering as part of the Olympic games […]
Pritpal S Tamber: To inform, we need to enable
Last week I witnessed how information can scare the living daylights out of doctors and managers, and made me wonder whether England’s policymakers have any clue about the real world […]
Jeremy Sare: Changes to New Zealand’s drug laws
UK justice secretary Ken Clarke was only expressing a truism about the control of drugs when, last month, he told the Commons home affairs select committee he “frankly conceded that policy […]
David Payne: MPs and their mental health
In a Guardian newspaper article this week Juliette Jowitt caught up with four MPs—including the former GP Sarah Wollaston, who stood up in the House of Commons last month to […]
John Davies on volunteering as part of the medical team at the Olympic Games
John Davies is a consultant anaesthetist in Lancaster, who takes part in motorsport as a competitor and as a rally doctor. He is volunteering as part of the Olympic Games […]
Nick Goodwin: Jumping the gun in the telehealth steeplechase?
If the adoption of telehealth were an Olympic sport, it would probably represent the steeplechase—an endurance event with obstacles that do not fall over when hit and with a 3.5 […]
James Hopkins and Jane Blazeby: Development of a core outcome set for bariatric surgery
Obesity is a growing problem in affluent parts of the world—for example, North America and Europe—where more than a quarter of the population are obese (BMI >30) and 3-5% are […]
Liz Wager: An ORCID by any other name would smell as sweet
The BMJ recently had to apologise for having published a picture of a Japanese doctor called Dr Yoshitaka Fujii which turned out not to show the Dr Yoshitaka Fujii who […]