NEJM 12 Jan 2017 Vol 376 PROMS and PROs I first went to the Proms in 1966. I enjoyed the queuing, the atmosphere, and the music: young Barenboim playing Beethoven […]
Month: January 2017
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Apoptosis
In their landmark paper in the British Journal of Cancer 45 years ago, Kerr, Wyllie, and Currie reported a phenomenon that they described as “controlled cell deletion”. They proposed calling […]
Keith Pearson: “I hear and share doctors concerns about revalidation”
When the General Medical Council (GMC) commissioned me to carry out a review—Taking Revalidation Forward—I considered revalidation’s primary function was to assure patients about the quality and safety of doctors. I […]
Martin McKee: A Shared Society? Interpreting Theresa May’s revolutionary vision
Theresa May is an unlikely revolutionary. Yet, on the day she entered 10 Downing Street, this was how she defined herself. She spoke of the need to tackle shorter life […]
Andrew S Al-Rais: How to avoid handover hostility
Arriving in resus the tension was palpable. A familiar interplay was evolving in the Paediatric bay. The “Handover Standoff.” On one side stood a fatigued transfer team accompanying an intubated […]
Lindsay-Ann Coyle and Sarah Atkinson: Living with multimorbidity
“I sometimes refer to myself as having OCD and sometimes refer to myself as having an eating disorder.” Living with multimorbidity may constitute one of the biggest challenges to how […]
Paul Buchanan: How not to annoy your doctor
What do we, patients, really want when we phone up to book that appointment? What do we really need? Why do we feel like the only answer is to take […]
Daoxin Yin: Will the universal two-child policy in China exacerbate gender discrimination in the medical job market?
Winter is the new doctor recruiting season for Chinese hospitals. Between the end of November and February, government-owned hospitals, who are major employers, interview job candidates. Most of these candidates […]
Helen Tuckwood: Living with vitiligo
I first noticed two patches of white skin about 10 years ago, when I was 47 years old. The patches were on the inside top of my thighs, symmetrical to […]
David Lock: Have NHS leaders failed to “speak truth unto power”?
This is blog is not a rant—well not too much of a rant. It is an expression of serious frustration about the way the NHS is run and about the […]