August marked the fourth anniversary of the shootings at the Marikana mine in North West Province of South Africa. It’s one of those events that so etches itself onto our […]
Month: October 2016
Desmond O’Neill: Mozart in the ballpark
A live telecast of The Marriage of Figaro to a baseball stadium from the Kennedy Centre provided a delightful and illuminating synergy with the 2016 conference of the National Centre […]
Avril Danczak: When is a disease not a disease?
Most GPs will recognise the dispiriting conversation that can happen when a patient discovers that they have Chronic Kidney Disease Stage 3 (CKD). “A disease? Where did I catch it […]
Richard Thorley: Exception reporting—let’s show Jeremy how hard we really work
The day we have all been dreading in obstetrics and gynaecology has arrived. Some trusts started to roll out the new contract for junior doctors last week. The cancellation of strike action […]
Paul Buchanan: What are we meant to eat?
The devil is in the detail, so the saying goes, and the detail has been supplied by decades of peer-reviewed and published research which told us all that fat is […]
Partha Kar: Diversity in the NHS matters
The world we live in is in a fascinating space at the moment. Tolerance seems to be at a low ebb—whether that is due to the rhetoric fuelled by the Donald […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—10 October 2016
NEJM 6 Oct 2016 Vol 375 MI: better care counts in long term Forty years ago, it was generally safer to stay at home with a myocardial infarction. Archie Cochrane demonstrated […]
Richard Smith: Epidemiology—big problems and an identity crisis
The Germans probably have a more precise word for it, but it’s close to schadenfreude as an outsider to watch a professional group agonise over who they are, whether they […]
Bhakti Visani: Experiences of providing psychiatric care in a mother and baby unit
During my F2 year I undertook a four month psychiatry placement, based in a mother and baby unit. Before starting, psychiatry was definitely not in my top 5 list of coveted […]
Mary Higgins: Breaking bad news in maternity care
There’s one thing I really hate about my job, and that’s a particular phone call. A midwife I respect will ring and ask can I come down straight away. A […]