The Calais Jungle is now all but rubble and mud. More than 10,000 refugees who inhabited the camp are dispersed across France. Many of them will be embarking on their […]
Month: November 2016
Thushara Matthias: Caring for older patients
I’m a postgraduate trainee from a developing country and have completed my local training in internal and general medicine to be a consultant physician. The rest of my training involves […]
Aeesha NJ Malik: Integrating child health in Tanzania—where is the vision?
I first set foot in Tanzania 20 years ago as a medical student. Rather ambitiously at the time, I came with the intention of conducting an evaluation in Tanzania and […]
Richard Smith: Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world, and why are Facebook and Harry Potter so popular?
When you enter the room in the Louvre that contains the Mona Lisa you find people crowded around the bullet-proof case that contains the Mona Lisa and largely ignoring the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—21 November 2016
NEJM 17 Nov 2016 Vol 375 Diabetes kills in Mexico City “Overall, between 35 and 74 years of age, the excess risk of death associated with diabetes accounted for approximately […]
Juliet Cohen: Proving torture–home office mistreatment of expert medical evidence
The encounter that changed my medical career was in 1990, with an interpreter working in a Red Cross clinic overseas. We had become friends over the weeks that I worked […]
Stuart Brown: Antimicrobial resistance—a local, national, and global threat
I have presented at many events on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and come across difficult to treat infections in my own practice, but I had never seen an untreatable infection. That […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Rhetoric and oratory
You might think that “rhetoric” and “oratory” came from the same linguistic root. But it appears not, which is fitting, considering the difference in meaning. Scholars tell us that rhetoric […]
Tessa Richards: Patients’ role in making care safer
Patients don’t only access services. They observe them acutely too. As they lie in hospital beds and are “processed” through outpatients and emergency centres they perceive quality and safety at […]
Showing solidarity with health professionals everywhere on the need for water, sanitation, and hygiene
Delia Jepson and Cheryl Stanley, midwives, Liverpool Women’s Hospital We started this year by travelling to rural Tanzania with WaterAid to experience what daily life is like for the committed […]