Away from my comfort zone working as an emergency medicine doctor in London, I have been working in a hospital in northern Syria with the charity Hand in Hand for […]
Month: September 2013
Kavin Andi: Pioneering the use of 3-D computer imagery to rebuild patients’ faces
Some of us are driven by personal conviction about our career choice while others succumb to the subtle and not to subtle influence of peer pressure or well meaning parents. […]
Richard Smith: “I’m the minister of health in a poor country”
I’m the minister of health in a poor country. Until last year I was a urologist. I was the president’s urologist and took out his prostate. To be honest, I […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—30 September 2013
NEJM 26 Sep 2013 Vol 369 1195 Gosh, I feel vulnerable. The opening paper in this week’s New England Journal is about sources of C difficile infection in “healthcare settings […]
Sheila Hollins: BMA Medical Book Awards
This year’s BMA Medical Book Awards were a great success, portraying the high standard and wide-range of medical literature available and recognising the talent of the individual winners. 641 excellent […]
Simon Chapman: Publishing horror stories: Time to euthanase paper based journals?
Every researcher has exasperating stories of the glacial pace of research publication. But as a former research journal editor of 17 years, I know that researchers’ ideas on what constitutes […]
Nell Crowden: More bravery needed among academics
The Clean Med Europe 2013 conference, , organised by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare and Healthcare Without Harm, was much what I expected: buzzy conversation with brilliant contacts, inspiring speakers […]
Jane Parry: Heads: Hong Kong babies lose. Tails: the formula companies win
It’s been a busy couple of years in Hong Kong for the international baby formula companies. As soon as the Department of Health announced it had set up a Taskforce […]
Edward Davies: Health and politics: time to end the filibuster
The machinations behind the current attempt to defund Obamacare are politically complicated and have a prelude several years long. The evolving story on the federal budget and the rights and […]
Desmond O’Neill: Striking doctors and a cruel cut
The strike was so much more straightforward in 1987. I was then a trainee member of the Council of the Irish Medical Organization and our task was to change an […]