This is not a birth story blog, hear ye! However, as a doctor and a mum who’s gone through the whole process of childbirth twice in the last two years, coupled […]
Year: 2014
Richard Smith: Dying of cancer is the best death
Luis Buñuel, filmmaker, surrealist, iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary, thought a lot about death. “Sometimes,” he wrote in 1982, a year before he died at 83, “I think the quicker the […]
The BMJ Today: Second UK Ebola patient identified, and how 3D printing could affect clinical practice
The BMJ has been tracking the developments of the Ebola virus outbreak throughout 2014, and it continues to be in the news as the year draws to a close. Today, […]
Tracey Koehlmoos: CARE-ing for wounded warriors
From 4-6 December 2014, I had the good fortune to attend the 5th Annual Comprehensive Advanced Restorative Effort (C.A.R.E.) Summit at the Naval Medical Center, San Diego (NMCSD). I travelled […]
K M Venkat Narayan: Is health simply organized kindness?
My big public health hero (who is a hero to many) Dr Bill Foege once said that, “Civilization is organized kindness,” and my three days in Copenhagen made me feel […]
Bheemaray Manganavar: Re-imagining the response to non-communicable diseases in India
It was just another day at the primary health centre (PHC) that I work closely with in the south Indian state of Karnataka. I was in the pharmacy of the […]
The BMJ Today: A dignified death at last for brain dead pregnant woman
Doctors in Ireland must be breathing a sigh of relief after judges ruled that a brain dead pregnant woman should be allowed to die. The case makes for grim reading. […]
Christmas Appeal 2014: A silent hunger
I have been in Pakistan for six months, two thirds of the way through my nine month mission. Before working in Pakistan, I had spent some time working in the north […]
Theodora Bloom: Peer review and gatekeeping
Peer review seems to be researchers’ favourite whipping boy. Whenever two or three academics gather together, they tell each other horror stories of the journals, granting bodies and peer reviewers […]
William Cayley: Meeting our patients in the midst of their chaos
“Not again . . . ” The mom with the troubled teen is late for their appointment . . . “Not again . . . ” The elderly widow needs […]