JAMA 6 Feb 2013 Vol 309 453 Stone the crows, a great little study from Oz that will change your practice at a stroke. They recruited 212 patients with intermittent […]
Month: February 2013
Domhnall MacAuley: The surgeons who are not doctors
“The surgeons who are not doctors.” Reading this headline, I expected a story on training healthcare workers as surgical technicians in some under doctored developing country. But no, it was […]
Tiago Villanueva: Poverty and hunger in Portugal
Some time ago a patient told me that he needed to borrow money from a neighbour to buy a train ticket to come to his appointment at the practice. At […]
Birte Twisselmann: Let’s hear it for music and poetry
“Representation of older people in arts, music, and literature,” a seminar held at the Royal Society of Medicine, got off to a shaky start because of noisy building work next […]
Julian Sheather: Should doctors make moral judgments about their patients?
Thou shalt not judge. There are times when it feels like our eleventh commandment. In our liberal, offence-free world there are supposed to be no good and bad choices, no […]
Andrew Burd: Chaperones, sex, and lies
I suspect that like many others of my generation the concept of a chaperone was introduced through school era reading of the classic works of Jane Austin. The necessity to […]
Suchita Shah: Health as a gateway to global development
A week ago, I was writing about rights—in this particular instance, the right to safe water, having personally experienced the city of Santiago without water during my stay in Chile. […]
Shauna Mullally on fixing the lack of medical equipment in Africa
I see a lot of medical equipment that isn’t working. In fact, that’s my job. I’m a biomedical engineer and I spend a lot of time in Africa working with […]
Tony Waterston: Children’s rights in England–a long way to go
Five strong women addressed the packed chamber at the Palace of Westminster, perhaps illustrating the predominance of women in the children’ sector. The subject was the launch of the 2012 […]
Richard Smith: Syria, now’s top sorrow
Climate change will soon destroy us. Global poverty is increasing. Non-communicable disease is sweeping the planet. Communicable disease is far from defeated and may re-emerge in new and terrible forms […]