When one reads the history of any autocratic, despotic regime, one is always struck by how they managed to secure the submission of the educated and intelligent through remarkably simple […]
Month: August 2015
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Ars magna
In 1545 Girolamo Cardano, an Italian physician, mathematician, and philosopher, published a book, Ars magna, or the Rules of Algebra (picture), which included the solutions to cubic and quartic equations, […]
Neel Sharma and Chaoyan Dong: Coalition in medical education
Trudie Roberts and Ronald Harden authored a commentary earlier this year which focused on enhancing existing collaborations to solve the challenges in medical education. We wanted to share our insights. […]
Phillippa Hentsch: A new way of paying for urgent and emergency care services
Different parts of the urgent and emergency care (UEC) pathway are paid for in different ways. Acute and specialist facilities are predominately funded through the national tariff, whereas UEC services […]
Lara Gautier: August 2015—a paroxysm of environmental health incidents caused by industrial activity
The Animas river in Colorado, the Moskva river south of Moscow, and Tianjin. What do these three geographic areas have in common? They have all been deeply affected by industrial hazards […]
Amy Price: BMJ and the Twitter Footprint
Recently on Twitter I saw a beautiful network graph with my name in it showcasing the reach of a doctor on Twitter. It was amazing to see the reach of just […]
The BMJ Today: Is the UK ready for assisted dying?
• Jacky Davis and Ilora Finlay go head to head in a debate on the Assisted Dying Bill set to be read in parliament next month. They debate whether the […]
Edward Fitzgerald: Celebrating global health on world humanitarian day
Lifebox Foundation is celebrating surgery and anaesthesia humanitarian heroes for WHD. Follow our #HumanitarianHeroes campaign on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to find out more. When I was 4 years old […]
Aser García Rada: Providing humanitarian aid at one of the oldest refugee camps in the world
During four weeks this June, along with other colleagues from the Spanish and the Austrian Red Cross, I was deployed as a delegate of the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) of […]
The BMJ Today: heroin, e-cigarettes, and alcohol
• Michael McCarthy reports on a new $13.4m White House initiative to tackle the growing heroin epidemic in the USA. Around half will go to bolstering law enforcement efforts, with the […]