It’s my fourth month working for public health in the local authority and I’ve had yet another request to join a stakeholder meeting. This time it’s from NHS England to […]
Month: July 2013
Jen Gunter: The great Kate wait is a lesson for maternal health providers and pregnant women alike
The press and much of the world, or so it seems, has been on edge waiting for the Duchess of Cambridge to go into labor and finally that day has […]
From the BMJ archive: Medical implications of the Taser
On 8 July it was reported that a man died in Manchester after police hit him with a Taser shot. According to the BBC, this death is “the tenth to […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—22 July 2013
JAMA 17 July 2013 Vol 310 270 There are three papers in this week’s JAMA which would make good teaching material for a course on critical reading. The first is […]
Paul Glasziou: Beware the hyperactive therapeutic reflex
Nearly 15 years ago when I first presented the results of our systematic review on antibiotics for acute otitis media, one paediatrician snarled, “You’re making it too complicated. It’s simple: […]
Richard Smith: Doctors and the “three body problem”
Paul Valéry, the French poet and polymath, believed that we all have three bodies and suffer because we cannot bring them together. The best doctors, I suggest, pay attention to […]
Leslie Shanks: To err is humanitarian
I remember that day as if it were yesterday. It was in the middle of the chaos of the cholera outbreak that followed the refugee influx into Zaire in 1994 […]
David Kerr on Google Glass and big brother medicine
Recently in the UK, the General Medical Council (GMC) faced a barrage of criticism following the publication of new guidance on the use of social media by doctors. The main […]
Isobel Braithwaite: Sustainable healthcare education—what is it, and why does it matter?
Welcome to a series of blogs on sustainable healthcare that look at health, sustainability, and the interplay between the two. The blogs share ideas from experts across […]
Eva Dumann: So this is victory—treating adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
One of the great things about being a BMJ Clegg scholar is unlimited access to BMJ articles, coupled with enough free time to read about the weird and wonderful topics […]