Having recently posted some thoughts on the continuing centrality of diagnosis in doctoring, I was happy to see the recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report “Improving Diagnosis in Healthcare.” I […]
Month: November 2015
Tony Rao: When doctors strike
To say that junior doctors are dissatisfied would probably be an understatement. It is now almost exactly 40 years since they turned to industrial strike action as a means of […]
John King: Just tick the boxes
The atmosphere at the mothers meeting was warm and friendly. All the local mums were looking forward to sharing the latest news and gossip about their children, as they had […]
Mihail Călin: Protests on the streets of Bucharest—”We want hospitals, not cathedrals!
Twelve days have passed since fireworks lit the soundproofing at the Colectiv club in Bucharest, unleashing a deadly combination of fire and toxic fumes over hundreds of concert goers. The […]
Mary E Black: Data—a love story
I remember my first data extraction. As a clinician I enjoyed creating good clinical notes, and was adept at digesting fat files of written scrawl, laboratory records, and referral letters—for […]
DFID should put long term research at the heart of development
The 2015 autumn spending review launched by the chancellor George Osborne, aims to find ways to reduce the UK government budget by a further £20 billion. While the UK aid […]
The WHO financing dialogue: global health leadership needs to be paid for
“WHO must re-establish it’s pre-eminence as the guardian of global public health; this will require significant changes throughout WHO with the understanding that this includes both the Secretariat and the […]
Richard Smith: The Closer We Get
The Closer We Get shows the last months of a woman’s life after she has had a stroke and tells the complex story of a family as they gather around […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—9 November 2015
NEJM 5 Nov 2015 Vol 373 Now for the good news 1824 In the middle of the joy and uncertainty of pregnancy, you are told you have cancer. It happens […]
William Cayley: The value of the tweet
I’ve only recently begun tweeting, but have already been struck by the challenge of sometimes trying to convey complex ideas in 144 characters or less. The combinations of abbreviations, “hashtags,” […]