Medical education has seen significant change over the past decade and more. Advances in teaching, learning, and assessment strategies are vast. The didactic lecture form of teaching is no longer […]
Month: May 2015
A gap in the evidence—what is the role of surgery in the patient with severe (secondary) Raynaud’s phenomenon?
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 […]
Tessa Richards: Fewer tablets, more self management support
It’s easy to lose confidence and withdraw from life when you become ill and lose your job. “Anne” struggled for 20 years with multiple long term conditions and a drug […]
The BMJ Today: Tobacco, tennis, and “unmitigated quackery”
• An investigation by The BMJ into attempts by big tobacco to prevent the introduction of plain packaging of cigarettes has revealed that MPs and peers accepted gifts from the […]
Sue Hogston: “We only have one chance to get it right, so why are some still getting end of life care so wrong?”
Today’s report by the parliamentary and health service ombudsman demonstrates that end of life care could be improved for up to 355 000 people a year; highlighting tragic cases where […]
David Oliver: Do bring me problems
In her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World, Barbara Ehrenreich brilliantly deconstructed this cult. Her starting point was her own diagnosis of breast cancer […]
Daniel Barrett: Will a seven day NHS push primary care recruitment from crisis to catastrophe?
I listened with personal interest as the new conservative government re-launched its grand plan to deliver a “seven day health service.” In a little over a year I will be […]
The BMJ Today: Patients let down by end of life care, seven day working, and a letter from Australia
• A new report has found that terminally ill people are enduring painful and distressing deaths through failure by the NHS in England to properly manage care at the end […]
David Payne at Health 2:0 Europe 2015
Is the Uber minicab model fit for healthcare? Why are doctors terrible digital adopters? And can the medical workforce benefit from using applications which promise virtual doctors on demand? These […]
Pallavi Bradshaw: Should employers have access to employees medical records?
Flying has become an integral part of modern life, whether for pleasure or business. I have never been a nervous flyer although I would be lying if I said that […]