I think if I wasn’t an anaesthetist, I would have liked to have been a pilot. There are a lot of similarities between the two: in terms of responsibility, and […]
Month: January 2017
Arnie Purushotham: Multidisciplinary team meetings in cancer care need to change
Multidisciplinary team (MDT) working is one of the cornerstones of our cancer services. MDT meetings are vital for exemplary patient care but it is becoming increasingly clear that they need […]
Mikako Hayashi and Nairn Wilson: Time to put the mouth back in the body
We believe that it is time to put the mouth back in the body—for medical, social, and financial reasons. Healthcare worldwide needs to become more inclusive and holistic, to move […]
Nick Hopkinson: NHS humanitarian crisis denial
When I qualified as a doctor in 1993, trolley medicine was completely routine. Post take ward rounds would typically visit people who had been waiting patiently in corridors overnight or […]
Richard Smith: The brutality of demography
Many of us elite liberals like to think of ourselves as rational creatures trying to get by in a crazy world, but we know that we are prey to all […]
Jose Luis Vivero-Pol and Tomaso Ferrando: Let’s talk about the right to food
Legal recognition of the right to food and nutrition can create the grounds for effective and systemic solutions for hunger and malnutrition. Recently, the media was abuzz with news of […]
Tamás Bereczky: Patient advocacy and the HIV community
I have been working as a patient advocate, peer helper, treatment literacy trainer and policy advocate in the HIV/AIDS field for more than a decade now. HIV is no longer […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—9 January 2017
NEJM 5 Jan 2017 Vol 376 The trials of big pharma As a fan of Ben Goldacre’s Bad Pharma and Peter Gøtzsche’s Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime, I was not […]
David Oliver: Closing more hospital beds—the policy zombie they couldn’t kill
During the silly season over Christmas and New Year, NHS England Chief Nursing Officer Jane Cummings gave an interview to the Daily Telegraph. She advocated better investment in community and […]
Narinder Kapur: Promoting compassion in healthcare—ask “How are you coping?”
The issue of showing compassion in healthcare was highlighted by the Mid-Staffordshire Reports, and it was given a major boost by the movement started by the late Dr Kate Granger, […]