Could you cope with dehydration, hypothermia, and the Madden rule? Jonathan Drezner, team physician for the Seattle Seahawks, talks about this year’s Super Bowl and what it takes to become a […]
Year: 2014
Helen Steiner: Do GP trainers have enough protected time for training?
As a recently qualified GP trainer I have been aware of an “elephant in the room” regarding protected time for training. I have not been able to find any written […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—3 March 2014
NEJM 27 Feb 2014 Vol 370 799 I’ve reached the age when people look back and sigh and cluck about the way the world has changed since they were children. […]
The BMJ Today: Sponsorship, epilepsy, and votes
Welcome to this new blog category, The BMJ Today. We aim to post an update each weekday of recent articles and other content to have caught our eye. We hope it […]
Richard Smith: What will robots do when they take us over?
Lord Rees, the Astronomer Royal and former president of the Royal Society, believes that robots might replace human beings within 50-60 years. Looking at writings from him on the web, […]
Rebecca Coombes: Greece’s young reject the Mediterranean diet
In Athens this week, at a meeting about Europe’s obesity crisis organised by the Greek government, talk is dominated by the expanding waistlines of Europe’s children. At the event’s smart […]
Richard Smith: The history of surgery—my contribution
In his book “Adolf Hitler: my part in his downfall,” Spike Milligan modestly suggested that his part had been small. My contribution to the history of surgery is even smaller […]
Jonathan M Glass: Blood taking is so much more than phlebotomy
Blood taking is so much more than phlebotomy. It’s so much more than the mere act of putting a needle in a patient’s arm. It’s so much more than filling […]
David Buck: Tackling health inequalities: we need a national conversation
In one of The King’s Fund’s most popular and commented on Time to Think Differently blogs last year, Gabriel Scally questioned whether we had lost the battle to tackle health […]
James Raftery: NICE proposes alternative for value based pricing
Recent headlines have indicated NICE’s displeasure at how it has been asked to implement value based pricing. The stories are based on a paper, “Value based assessment of health technologies,” […]