The massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake that occurred 77 km northwest of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, on 25 April 2015 left more than 8000 people dead and 16 000 injured. […]
Month: July 2015
Kallur Suresh: Psychiatry at the forefront of science
I recently attended the 2015 International Congress of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Birmingham. It was one of the largest gatherings of psychiatrists from the UK and many other countries. […]
Neel Sharma: Medical certification—too many tests?
In May this year, Paul Teirstein and Eric Topol authored a viewpoint on the role of maintenance of certification (MOC) in the States. Their article highlighted the shift from a […]
The BMJ Today: Are you closer to pharma than you think?
• Are you closer to pharma than you think? 36 English clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have been involved in medicines management programmes either directly or indirectly paid for by pharma. […]
Emma Ladds: Keeping a sense of perspective
Getting through the key safe is often a major accomplishment on home visits. Once you’ve achieved that, you can be pretty sure you can manage what lies beyond. Today I […]
Neville Goodman’s metaphor watch: Literally a metaphor
We use metaphor, a figure of speech, to explain or enliven: in doing so we write metaphorically, or figuratively. The opposite of metaphorically is literally. We don’t need to add […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Back breaking
Words typically develop from a root of some sort, and derivatives are formed from a primary word by changing or adding something. You can do this in many ways. You […]
William Cayley: Ethics and professional wisdom
The recently publicized news that the American Psychological Association (APA) “colluded” with US governmental agencies to create ethical guidelines permitting psychologists to participate in “harsh interrogations” of military detainees is appalling. […]
Lyndal Trevena: Final reflections as the #ISDMISEHC Conference in Sydney concludes
The final day of the ISDMISEHC conference took a closer look at some of the key issues of the future. Professor Sharon Straus started the day with a keynote address […]
Timothy Caulfield: Genetics and personalized medicine—where’s the revolution?
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 […]