For several years now, India has been sharply criticized for being one of the most undernourished nations on earth despite consistently high rates of economic growth. So the First Global […]
Month: December 2014
Samir Dawlatly: Would I make it through medical school these days?
I specialised at being a university student. I didn’t graduate from medical school until I was 30, for a variety of reasons, despite the fact that I first set foot […]
The BMJ Today: All I want for Christmas is a chocolate Aneurin Bevan
In the past year you may have read BMJ Confidential, the weekly column that grills healthcare professionals on their backgrounds and inspiration, earliest ambitions, career mistakes, and guilty pleasures. For […]
Barbara Bokhour: Patient centered care in an epidemic—why it matters
As the Ebola outbreak in west Africa continues, finding ways to control the epidemic is paramount. In some of the hard hit African countries, we have seen the reluctance of patients […]
Frank Chalmers: Channel swimming—the great leveller
As soon as I opened The BMJ Christmas paper, Captain Webb’s legacy: the perils of swimming the English Channel, I knew I was in for something different. The Channel fare I’m used […]
The BMJ Today: Why diets don’t work and the rehabilitation of saturated fat
Depending on your world view, our obsession with food at Christmas (witness packed supermarket aisles, and the acres of menu ideas churned out by newspapers) is either a glorious, well […]
Helen Morant: How should doctors look at patients?
When health professionals talk about patient engagement, we express ideas of listening to patients’ voices, understanding their priorities, and changing our treatment models and priorities to focus on theirs. We […]
Emma Spencelayh: To FT or not to FT—that is the question. Or is it?
As part of the Health Foundation’s work on analysing the controversial decision to prohibit the proposed merger of Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch Hospitals NHS […]
The BMJ Today: “Your husband can donate his tools” and other Christmas highlights
What do you do if you have to treat a very sick child in intensive care whose parents do not speak English—and there are no human translators available? What do […]
Pritpal S Tamber: Creating health—the emerging principles
The Creating Health Collaborative was formed to understand why, despite their potential, broader definitions of health remain only a fringe of health innovation. In today’s post, I am sharing their […]