Even those whose daily diet does not include the pages of the national press could not have missed the furore over The BMJ’s very public correction of an error in […]
Month: May 2014
Tiago Villanueva: Should we “own” our health?
I don’t often have the chance to meet people like Ron Dembo, who have a vision and ideas that could change the world, or at least the world of healthcare. […]
Mary E Black: Look at me
I was a bit of a star in my early 30s at Harvard’s School of Public Health. On a fully funded and prestigious Harkness Fellowship (so a treasured person in […]
Tessa Richards: The right to be supported to self manage disease
On the eve of the EU elections, reports and manifestos aimed at attracting the attention of newly elected MEPs and commission officials have been flowing thick and fast. A new […]
Neal Maskrey: Do doctors need to understand more about decision making?
A few months before the 2004 UEFA European Football Championship, we moved to the sports mad north west of England, where you could taste the anticipation. St George’s flags hung […]
Rhys Davies: Women’s Rights are Human Rights
“How many women does it take to change a light bulb? One, but she may need to get a ladder or stand on a chair first.” As a straight white […]
The BMJ Today: How to defeat the world’s deadliest animal
“What is the most dangerous animal in the world?” Not an obvious opening line to an Observations article by The BMJ’s regular columnist Douglas Kamerow. However, if you follow his […]
Richard Smith: The polypill reaches the plateau of productivity
“I’m outraged,” said Robert Beaglehole, former director at WHO responsible for non communicable disease, at the end of the second polypill summit in Melbourne recently. He’s outraged because the world […]
Kamran Abbasi: Twenty five years of The BMJ’s editorial registrar scheme
The BMJ tends to hesitate over anniversaries, especially its own, but today marks 25 years of the best training scheme in the history of medical journalism. I would say that, […]
Sabine Best: Clinicians, patients, and carers—having your say in palliative and end of life care research
Palliative and end of life care is under researched; there are many unanswered questions to be addressed, and yet resources for research are limited. For research to have a lasting […]