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Month: April 2014

Richard Lehman’s journal review—22 April 2014

April 22, 2014

NEJM  17 Apr 2014  Vol 370 1494    Back in the 1970s, people used to say that we had entered an era of safe surgery and dangerous medicine. I find it […]

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The BMJ Today: Respect for international doctors

April 22, 2014

A cluster of recent articles on bmj.com concern the educational performance of international medical graduates compared with UK graduates. The subject has been hotly debated since the 1980s when it […]

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KM Venkat Narayan: Roads in India – a fast growing death trap

April 22, 2014

Today I received a sad email about a 24 year old family friend who died in a road traffic accident in Mumbai.  Rohan Sardar skid on the road while riding […]

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William Cayley: Is primary care in the US really the future?

April 22, 2014

Is primary care really the future? I’d like to say “Yes,” but I’m not so sure… (at least in the USA). There has been much talk and writing about the […]

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Julian Sheather: Time to debate the ethics of robot care?

April 17, 2014

We take it for granted that compassion is at the heart of good care. But what if the hand that reaches out to yours is a robot’s? What if the […]

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The BMJ Today: Further adventures of the polypill

April 17, 2014

Remember the polypill, the combination of several active ingredients in one tablet that promised to revolutionise the prevention of cardiovascular disease? It is a question we have often asked in […]

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Jim Murray: Abbvie withdraw case against European Medicines Agency

April 16, 2014

AbbVie have withdrawn their legal challenge against the release of certain company documents on Humira (adalimunab) by the EMA. This followed an offer by the agency to redact parts of […]

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David Oliver: How real life stories can help us understand the challenges of care for older people

April 16, 2014

On television we can often tell more from peoples’ words or reactions than from any scripted voiceover. In “Protecting our Parents”—a three part BBC 2 documentary, due to be screened […]

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The BMJ Today: Why does female genital mutilation persist?

April 16, 2014

A news story by Clare Dyer and a rapid response from the director of public prosecutions in England and Wales, Alison Saunders, keep The BMJ’s spotlight on female genital mutilation. […]

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Kailash Chand: The survival of general practice is the survival of the NHS

April 16, 2014

General practice in England is under intense pressure at the moment from a variety of sources, including the plan to keep surgeries open from 8am to 8pm, seven days a […]

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