If a patient produced a machete during a consultation, reminding you of your duty of confidentiality as he calmly placed it in the sharps bin, what would you do? Professional […]
Month: April 2015
The BMJ Today: Promises, promises
• It’s political parties’ manifestoes week, and The BMJ‘s reporter Gareth Iacobucci has summarised the promises made on the NHS, health, and social care of those that have been published, and […]
Suzanne Gordon: Pimping has no place in medical education
Until recently I thought I knew the meaning of the term “pimp” or “pimping.” But a couple of weeks ago a friend who is a student in a physician’s assistant […]
Neville Goodman: dead, revived, and mixed metaphors
Metaphors have a life and get tired, but dead metaphors are not just ones that have become very tired indeed. Dead metaphors have lost their original imagery, and have become […]
David Payne: What would you ask a future UK health secretary?
If you were in the same room as health secretary Jeremy Hunt, Labour shadow health secretary Andy Burnham, Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb, and UKIP’s Louise Bours, what would […]
William Cayley: Who are you?
“The Patient” is everywhere. He is in consult notes, she is in hospital admission notes, he is in letters, and she is even in my daily dictations and procedure notes. […]
Rui Tato Marinho: Travelling, learning, and futuring in Mozambique
Last September I was in Mozambique, trying to find my grandparents’ house in the city of Beira. The house is there, still alive. They left Mozambique 50 years ago. Mozambique […]
The BMJ Today: Let’s ditch the posh sandwiches
– In her latest column, Margaret McCartney looks at the relationship between big pharma and doctors’ postgraduate education. McCartney argues that it is better for doctors to ditch the free […]
Neel Sharma: Does the cost of using technology in medical education unfairly disadvantage developing countries?
Medical education reform has seen significant changes since the days of the Flexner report. What remains true are the rigorous entrance requirements, the scientific method of thinking, learning by doing, […]
The BMJ Today: Fluoxetine and Farage—publication and political bias
Today The BMJ publishes two examples of bias—one of publication bias and one of political bias. • Michael McCarthy reports on how researchers in the Netherlands have shown that the […]