This week I attended a Health 2.0 London event on mobile sensors. The title of the event asked if they were key to remote patient monitoring. I think the answer […]
Month: July 2013
Rebecca Mills: The true cause of death
Have you ever considered the accuracy and reliability of hospital death certification? Prior to my recent research project, I certainly hadn’t. Accurate certification is not only important for legalities sake, […]
Richard Smith: Case reports in 16th century Europe and China
There is a huge theoretical body of knowledge about the history of the novel, but almost nothing on the history of the medical case report. Gianna Pomata from Johns Hopkins […]
Frances Mortimer: Sustainable clinical practice
Welcome to a series of blogs on sustainable healthcare that will look at health, sustainability, and the interplay between the two. The blog will share ideas from experts across the […]
Julian Sheather: Do younger doctors take more time off sick?
I’ve been doing some work recently with a GP trainer. I’m not a good judge of these things, but I would put him in his mid-fifties. He strikes me as […]
Jeremy Sare: Khat’s out the bag
To be a home secretary is to become the embodiment of political contradiction. Last Tuesday, Theresa May announced to parliament a scaling back of “stop and search powers” given their […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—8 July 2013
JAMA 3 July 2013 Vol 310 46 If you identify people with poorly controlled blood pressure in primary care and introduce a system of intensive telemonitoring run by pharmacists according […]
Ashley Graham Kennedy: Do medical titles harm the physician patient relationship?
It was 4 am in the emergency department (ER). An 83 year old woman had come into the ER after experiencing an episode of disorientation and shortness of breath earlier […]
Samir Dawlatly: Times have changed for me
Four years ago I wrote about my diagnosis of bipolar disorder, and how despite this I had gone on to be successful at medical school, in the hope that it […]
Richard Smith: Is the New England Journal of Medicine anti-science?
About once a year a furious researcher writes to me complaining that the New England Journal of Medicine won’t publish a letter that strongly criticises, even demolishes, an article the […]