When we formed our Self Managed Learning (SML) group at the NHS Leadership Academy, I made it clear to the others that I wanted them to push me and be […]
Month: April 2014
The BMJ Today: The Tamiflu trials
Today The BMJ is all about neuraminidase inhibitors and open data. Ten articles on the subject of anti-influenza drugs try to establish what we know. In sum: perhaps not enough […]
Neal Maskrey: Medical maths
Most of us end up with a handful of people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives. I’ve been lucky […]
The BMJ Today: The glass ceiling, upcoming elections, and big tobacco
As I look around our open plan office, towards where our editor, Fiona Godlee, sits, it would seem that the glass ceiling has been shattered at The BMJ. But, in […]
The BMJ Today: If you hear hoof beats in Texas think of horses, not zebras
As Saurabh Jha writes, “The likelihood that someone with cerebral aneurysm hit by a bat develops subarachnoid hemorrhage (near certainty) is not the same as the likelihood that someone who […]
Desmond O’Neill: Combatting rigidity in medicine
High quality films for children have a special place in our cultural landscape, an appeal which even embraces the medical humanities. To reach beyond children to the adults in their […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—7 April 2014
NEJM 3 Apr 2014 Vol 370 1287 Multitarget stool testing, you will be pleased to hear, is not the most important topic in the NEJM this week. There is in […]
The BMJ Today: The climate change horse has bolted
Eric Chivian urges doctors to help tackle climate change, but shouldn’t the profession’s energies be spent tackling unsafe hospitals and under resourced healthcare systems? […]
Richard Smith: Rediscovering a BMJ gem
After a class I taught recently one of the students came up to me and said, “My mother was fond of you. Her name was Clare Vaughan.” I remembered. I […]
Vidhya Alakeson: What will personal health budgets offer the NHS?
From this month, adults and children eligible for continuing healthcare will have the right to ask for a personal health budget. Five years on from the start of the national […]