About 15 years ago I sat in on the superb Doctoring programme at UCLA that taught medical students the art of medicine through role play with actors. One scenario featured […]
Month: December 2012
Liz Wager: Discussing research misconduct with Dr Hwang
In a country where over half the population is called Kim, Park, or Lee, it probably shouldn’t have come as such a surprise to find myself talking about research misconduct […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—17 December 2012
JAMA 12 Dec 2012 Vol 308 2349 The run-up to Christmas never finds me in the best of moods, and now it seems that the editor of JAMA is trying […]
Domhnall MacAuley: “Seven Deadly Sins” and Lance Armstrong
The sports medicine book of the year? No, not some worthy academic text or edited works of the great and the good (and, yes, I did one of these this […]
Desmond O’Neill: Graphic insights into Alzheimer’s disease
In my practice as a geriatrician, no syndrome is as interesting, intellectually stimulating, and simultaneously frustrating and rewarding as dementia. Ethical sensitivity, integrative neurology, a critical approach to neurobiology, and […]
Radhika Arora et al: Challenges and opportunities for female health systems researchers
Juggling personal and professional lives in search of the perfect balance is an art that women and men across the world, in different spheres of work, are familiar with. How […]
Tracey Koehlmoos: Systematic reviews in international development
This week I am in rural Savar, Bangladesh, attending the Dhaka Colloquium on Systematic Reviews in International Development. It is always a pleasure to be in Bangladesh, but it is […]
Ed Silverman on the Sunshine rule in the US
Any day now the Obama administration is expected to release the long delayed Sunshine rule which will determine how drug and device makers are to gather and publish data containing […]
Julian Sheather: On doughnuts, moral desert, and paying for our health
I am writing this on an early train to Manchester. Not a bad time to see what people enjoy for breakfast. The woman opposite is eating one of those lovely […]
Jeremy Sare on the media’s misrepresentation of drugs
Everyone has an imperfect knowledge of drugs. But where do people find the information on which they base their forthright opinions? An Ipsos poll found the media are the most […]