As the general election draws near, a wide range of medical issues will be examined through political lenses in The BMJ and elsewhere. However, few (if any) pre-election medical debates […]
Month: March 2015
Toby Shipway: The Intrepid Fenton
The Intrepid Fenton A few geographical facts: the Northern Territory in Australia is 1.36 million km2. This equates to 5½ times the area of the UK. It contains a population […]
The BMJ Today: The joys of general practice, the dangers of glyburide, and a clash of care models
• Being a GP is still the best job in the world, writes Margaret McCartney, despite the many problems facing the profession. She notes that GPs witness the life stories […]
Neel Sharma and Chaoyan Dong: Learning analytics—a potential tool in medical education
Technology utilization in medical training is ubiquitous. As instructors we recognise the fact that no lecture or tutorial is devoid of some form of technology. E-learning and mobile learning has […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—30 March 2015
NEJM 26 Mar 2015 Vol 372 1193 Is the NEJM preaching Socialism? “We believe that all financial incentives and logistic barriers to providing the least expensive drug, among drugs equivalent […]
The BMJ Today: What airlines can learn about safety from medicine, health coaches from Dunkin’ Donuts, and a seven day NHS?
Blog: The aviation industry needs to address human factors in flight safety “Has the airline industry’s approach to safety been skewed towards the mechanical, technical, and engineering aspects of the […]
Ahmed Rashid: Should junior doctors accept pharma support for clinical research training?
Junior clinical researchers know that there’s really only one way for them to comprehensively get on the academic ladder and prove their credibility. Those three letters that contain years of […]
Paul Glasziou: Six proposals for evidence based medicine’s future
This blog is part of a series of blogs linked with BMJ Clinical Evidence, a database of systematic overviews of the best available evidence on the effectiveness of commonly used […]
Katherine Brown: The UK government’s relationship with the alcohol industry
Concerns have been raised about this government’s relationship with the alcohol industry and the conflict of interest this presents in delivering better public health outcomes. At a time when alcohol […]
Kallur Suresh: The aviation industry needs to address human factors in aviation safety
The unspeakable tragedy of the death of 150 people in what is thought to be a deliberate act of pilot suicide over the French Alps has brought into sharp focus […]