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Month: May 2015
Vijayaprasad Gopichandran: Peer review from an author, reviewer, and editor’s perspective
I write this as someone who just recovered from a battle that lasted 2 years in an attempt to publish the findings of one of my research papers. Four journals […]
The BMJ Today: Tobacco, HPV vaccine, antipsychotics in pregnancy, and problem drinking
• Tobacco industry lobbying undermines public health in Asia Martin McKee, Nichola Hopkinson, and K Srinath Reddy discuss the “fundamental and irreconcilable conflict between the tobacco industry’s interests and public […]
David Zigmond: “Curing” dementia—medical possibility or political rhetoric?
Talk of “curing” dementia can seriously distract us from the very difficult—yet humbly rewarding—tasks of pastoral care that are bound to increase. “David Cameron has said he wants dementia cured […]
Neel Sharma: Getting the right medical students comes with time
Last month, Richard Schwartzstein authored his perspective on poor communication skills among medical students and beyond (1). I read this with great interest and wanted to share my insights as […]
The BMJ Today: Should medical journals avoid discussing political issues that have a bearing on health?
• Politics, medical journals, the medical profession, and the Israel lobby–In July 2014, The Lancet published an “Open letter for the people in Gaza” from a group of doctors and […]
Billy Boland: What does continuous improvement actually mean?
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’ve found a lot of what’s written about “continuous improvement” practically impenetrable. On the face of it, it has a lot to […]
Chris Simms: Canada’s murdered and missing aboriginals
How would you know and what would it matter if the invisible disappeared? The self-described “invisible” are Canada’s aboriginal women, and the “disappeared” are the 1189 aboriginal women and girls […]
Violet Shivutse: A seat at the table for caregivers in Kenya
A new report from UN Women, Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights, calls for radical reforms to the global policy agenda thinking which will transform economies […]
Richard Smith: Time for a drive to register all global births and deaths
If your birth is not registered then you don’t exist, and yet a third of global births are not registered. If your death is not registered then your wife (or […]