I recently completed my residency in general surgery. Towards the end of my residency, I was introduced to the world of research and publishing. Far from knowing it all, the […]
Month: January 2015
The BMJ Today: Evacuation of children in World War II
The evacuation of civilians has been performed in many countries in times of war. The evacuation of civilians in Britain immediately after the outbreak of the Second World War was designed […]
The BMJ Today: Small changes can make a big difference
As everyone settles into the new year and tries to keep to their resolutions, the reflective nature of the period is hard to ignore. If you’re revisiting the previous year’s […]
Luca De Fiore and Tom Jefferson: Pills from the world
European regulatory agencies frequently inform doctors and pharmacists about their activities, paying particular attention to pharmacovigilance. The Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) started a new information feed on 3 April 2012: […]
The death debate: a response from Richard Smith
I’m sorry that I’ve upset many people who have cancer or who have had a bad experience of somebody dying of cancer [see previous blog]. That wasn’t my intention. I […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—5 January 2015
JAMA 24-31 December 2014 Vol 312 2659 The effects of extreme heat on older adults: what a great topic for this cold gloomy time of the year. “Heat wave periods […]
The BMJ Today: Meta-analyses and meta-meta-analyses
Meta-analyses can be dull reads, but, when done properly, they are the best summaries of available evidence for doctors to base their decisions on. Today we see two new meta-analyses […]
Margaret Cooter: Suffering for art
It is a truth generally acknowledged that artists must suffer for their art. Also, it is widely believed (in the art community at least) that good art has its basis […]
Billy Boland: Some New Year’s resolutions
Earlier this week, I saw someone put up their New Year’s resolutions from last year (NYE 2013) on social media to evaluate what they had achieved. It was, in fact, rather […]
Ted Willis: Can the NHS meet the challenges of the next 20 years?
Expenditure on our health services in the UK has been rising consistently at around 4% per year in real terms for the last 30 years. It has doubled in real terms […]