This was a question I put to members of doc2doc, The BMJ’s community site. The idea was sparked by an obituary (yet to be published) of a respiratory physician who […]
Month: December 2014
Global Health Film initiative: I Am Breathing
Mobile phone company: “Hello sir, I hear you are wanting to disconnect. Can we ask why sir?” Neil: “Because I’m dying.” Phone company: “Would it make a difference if we […]
Siyi Yu: China is speeding up the opening of the medical service market
Recently, a notification was released by China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission and business supervision department announcing that the establishment of wholly foreign owned hospitals is allowed in seven provinces […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—15 December 2014
NEJM 11 December 2014 Vol 371 OL The clones! The clones! There is something of Edgar Allen Poe about this study, which describes how “clonal hematopoiesis with somatic mutations is […]
The BMJ Today: Idiotic men and socialism
No, that isn’t the latest political outpouring from Russell Brand—it’s the theme of two recently published papers in The BMJ. Authors in Australia wanted to find out if the meme […]
David Payne: Digital dilemmas—a day in my life at The BMJ
Wednesday December 10. 8.30am: I’m on the bus into work and checking Twitter when I see an exchange between @garyschwitzer and @bengoldacre about some embargoed papers we press released last night, […]
Christmas Appeal 2014: An intensive care unit in a conflict zone
Two people with gunshot wounds are brought to the MSF hospital in Leer. They were at a celebration the previous evening when someone entered and started shooting. Five people were […]
The BMJ Today: Christmas has hit the fan
We’re getting festive in BMJ Towers, mince pies, tinsel, and dubious jumper choices abound. So settle back and let the Christmas issue relax you like a postprandial sherry. What makes […]
The BMJ Today: Is the private sector closing in on the NHS?
Yesterday, an investigation from The BMJ was making headlines everywhere from the BBC and the Financial Times, to Rochdale Online. This investigation, the latest by The BMJ‘s news reporter Gareth Iacobucci, found that since the Health […]
Helen Zorbas: 2014 World Cancer Congress
Last week in Melbourne, I had the privilege of joining influential leaders from the international cancer community as over 2800 delegates from 112 different countries came together for the World […]