Last week, Food Active, based in Liverpool and funded by the North West Directors of Public Health, launched a campaign encouraging people to Give Up Loving Pop—or GULP. To gulp […]
Month: February 2015
The BMJ Today: The perils of whistleblowing and the Russian roulette of NHS management
Here’s a flavour of what’s new on thebmj.com today. Features • Why would a hospital consultant go into management? Taking the job of NHS trust chief executive requires a doctor to […]
David Zigmond: The extinction of care by treatment—our healthcare’s heart failure
At the end of last year, the media had a brief frisson over another dark story from our NHS: seven recent suicides and one homicide involving people who were acutely […]
Richard Smith: A global university for healthcare workers
WHO estimates that the world is short of 12.9 million healthcare workers, and Devi Shetty, the cardiac surgeon and chairman and founder of Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals, thinks that radical steps […]
Richard Smith: Surgeons spend their time putting a price tag on human life
Physicians and surgeons across Asia, Africa, and Latin America spend their time putting a price tag on human life, said Devi Shetty, cardiac surgeon and chairman and founder of Narayana […]
The BMJ Today: Women’s satisfaction with pain relief during labour
Good morning. Here’s what is new in The BMJ. Research • Analgesics in labour. Are women more satisfied with pain relief obtained through a patient controlled device delivering remifentanil or […]
Elizabeth Loder on the proliferation of medical research reporting guidelines: A checklist too far?
If reporting guidelines and checklists are the answer, what is the problem? That’s easy: their development was motivated by the realization that critical information was vague, missing, or misreported in […]
Kallur Suresh on the portrayal of young onset Alzheimer’s disease in Still Alice
Imagine you’re a world renowned professor of linguistics at New York’s Columbia University. You’ve written game changing books on how children develop their language proficiency in early life and are […]
Richard Smith: Writing an obituary of the living
Just as I think everybody should have a living will, a plan for their funeral, and clear instructions on whether you want to be buried or cremated, so I advise […]
The BMJ Today: Expanding, limiting, and personalising healthcare
Research • Does early discharge increase the risk of complications and death? A cohort study from Sweden in patients over 50 with hip fracture found an increased risk of death […]