Earlier this month I spoke at a conference on Psychological Therapies for Severe and Prolonged Mental Illness in London. I was one of only two psychiatrists on the bill, among many […]
Month: July 2016
Rosamund Snow: What makes a real patient?
A few years ago I applied for a grant to study my own long term condition. I started out as Ms Snow, ashamed of saying the name of my disease, […]
Madhukar Pai: How drug resistant TB can show the path to tackling antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health threat, and it is estimated that if we do not find solutions to tackle the rise of drug resistant pathogens, by 2050 10 million […]
Mary E Black: Stik—My NHS Homerton hero
What inspires me? People who think differently, public spaces that are beautiful, art in unexpected moments. So when an enormous blue painting of a sleeping baby appeared on an outside […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—18 July 2016
NEJM 14 July 2016 Vol 375 Olanzapine stops chemo vomiting 134 For about five thousand years, doctors sought out plants that would make their patients vomit, believing that this would […]
Richard Smith: Why does prevention always come behind treatment of disease?
Why does prevention always come behind treatment of disease? Derek Yach, the chief health officer of Vitality, put this question to many people, and these are the answers he got […]
Fiona Godlee: My biggest career failure
Like most of us, I have known failure. I tried to get into Cambridge to do preclinical medicine from sixth form—twice: once in my fourth term and again in my […]
Neville Goodman’s Metaphor Watch: No, we aren’t nearly there
It must be one of the most annoying and predictable child behaviours. Perhaps even more predictable than asking if orange juice has got bits in. Any journey of any length […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Re: “-er” or “-re”
Anglo-Saxon spelling was consistent, but when Old English and French collided after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, inconsistencies in English spelling arose that lasted until the printing press […]
Oliver Minton: Cancer survivorship—where to next
I was invited to attend the inaugural cancer survivorship conference in Brussels—at the time our interests aligned (and indeed still do). The conference felt different with patient groups, bankers, actuaries […]