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Month: May 2013

Richard Lehman’s journal review—28 May 2013

May 28, 2013

JAMA  22 May 2013  Vol 309 2105   Viewpoints carry with them an offer of agreement or disagreement, and everything I write in these columns is based on that. I hope […]

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Tara Lamont: Finding things to stop doing…the inverse evidence law?

May 24, 2013

Early exponents of evidence based medicine put forward an optimistic view of future healthcare, where the availability of robust information would allow clinicians to select the most effective treatments—and to […]

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David Lock: Do NHS commissioners invest enough in contract management?

May 23, 2013

The NHS is in the middle of the transition from a publicly funded and publicly provided health service towards a publicly funded but increasingly privately provided service. It is thus […]

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Readers’ editor: Free pens and memory sticks

May 23, 2013

I spent yesterday at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south London, talking to readers of the BMJ. The medical school library had organised an open day and a sales colleague […]

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Magdalena Kincaid: Basic surgical training on the Mount of Olives

May 22, 2013

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) team has been here before, yet nothing from past experience can possibly prepare for being swept up by overwhelming excitement of entering […]

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Tracey Koehlmoos on a national initiative for arts and health in the military

May 21, 2013

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to attend a national summit on arts, health, and wellbeing across the military on 10 April 2013. It was held at Walter Reed […]

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Margaret McCartney: Clinical trial company tempts patients with free health screening

May 21, 2013

When buses in Glasgow started to come with posters asking if people were “Concerned about diabetes?” with an image of an older woman, a freephone number, and webpage for people […]

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Desmond O’Neill: Alex Ferguson and the Field Marshall

May 21, 2013

Field Marshall Mannerheim of Finland is one of the giant, if relatively under fêted, figures of European history. Called out of retirement at the age of 72 to lead tiny […]

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Richard Smith: Is anything less than fully informed consent abuse?

May 20, 2013

Recently in preparing a talk I was giving in Bologna I found a copy of a talk I’d given to WONCA, the world meeting of general practitioners, back in the […]

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Richard Smith, South Asia3 Comments

Richard Lehman’s journal review—20 May 2012

May 20, 2013

JAMA 15 May 2013  Vol 309 2016    I got into a bit of a muddle with this paper, but I blame JAMA. Let me test you out: the abstract says […]

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