This blog is part of a series on sustainable healthcare, which looks at health, sustainability, and the interplay between the two. The blog is coordinated by the Centre for Sustainable […]
Month: September 2014
Richard Lehman’s journal review—22 September 2014
NEJM 18 September 2014 Vol 371 1100 The way I have ureteric colic is so classical that just watching me sweat and groan is enough for anyone to make the […]
The BMJ Today: The complexity of medical jargon
Up to this day, I’m still often asked by friends when I am going to become a specialist, considering I am “just” a GP. It remains difficult for lay people […]
Hugh Alderwick: The ups and downs on the road to health service improvement
Parallels between the successful transformation of the Veterans Health Administration (VA) in the United States and the changes needed in the NHS in England have been made for a number […]
Richard Smith: Is it time to stop using the word poverty in Britain?
Is poverty yet another word that is so misunderstood we should stop using it—at least in Britain? John Lanchester, a friend of mine, argued so in the Observer. Can he possibly […]
Samir Dawlatly: A case of semantics
The problem lies in semantics. GP. General practitioner. Could one be more vague than that? There’s an argument that since, on the whole, we provide general medical services (in medical […]
The BMJ Today: What do walnut whip, the Carpenters, and Candy Crush have in common?
Walnut whip, the Carpenters, and Candy Crush are just some of the guilty pleasures to which doctors have admitted when filling in our questionnaire for BMJ Confidential. This week it […]
Grazia Caleo: Ebola—a blind outbreak
In José Saramago’s book Blindness, he describes an epidemic of an unknown infection that causes people to lose their sight. A single person remains uninfected to bear witness to the anger, […]
William Cayley: My Chief Complaint
My chief complaint . . . is with the chief complaint. One of the hallowed concepts in medical history taking and documentation is the “chief complaint.” Supposedly a way to […]
The BMJ Today: The unanswered questions on Scotland’s day of reckoning
Today, the people of Scotland will cast their landmark vote on whether to break away from the UK and become an independent nation. By this time tomorrow, they will have […]