Packed waiting rooms, delays in getting results, ambulances queuing, patients and results getting “lost” in the system: the daily frustrations facing people using and working in the NHS have become […]
Month: December 2016
Nick Fahy: Can real inter-sectoral working address deep-seated inequalities?
Many doctors will have had the frustration of dealing with health problems that are actually the result of much more deep-seated social inequalities, some with their roots going all the […]
Julian Sheather on why we must retain the Human Rights Act
When we sicken in the UK most of us turn to the NHS for care. The majority of doctors here have also been trained in the NHS. Medicine in the […]
Nitika Pant Pai: HIV self-testing can help end the AIDS epidemic
Although much progress has been made in tackling HIV, in 2015 there were over 36 million people living with HIV, and over 2 million people become newly infected with HIV […]
BMJ Christmas appeal: Training eye teams is vital to producing change
The BMJ has chosen Orbis for this year’s Christmas charity appeal. Orbis has been working in Vietnam since 1996, and over the past 20 years has helped to establish five […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Palindromes
A palindrome reads the same backwards as forwards, from the Greek παλίνδρομος, recurring or running back again, a compound of παλίν, back, and δρόμος, a course or racetrack. Other words […]
Richard Smith: Rethinking the publication of surgical innovations
A scandal in cardiothoracic research has led Martin Elliott, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Great Ormond Street, to conclude that current methods of publishing surgical innovations are not only inadequate but […]
Ramya Madhireddi: The underestimated burden of NTDs in India
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of conditions that affect more than a billion people worldwide. With India bearing one of the heaviest burdens of NTDs in the […]
Helen Wood: End of life care and intracranial haemorrhage
As a care of the elderly registrar currently working in a district general hospital, I am very familiar with the following story, and it is likely to be recognised by […]
Nick Hopkinson: Air quality—what’s the point of warnings?
The Thames is wreathed in smog—the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, issues an air quality alert and announces a new system of air quality warnings. There will be road-side dot […]