Canadians tend to look south of the border to the US to help define who they are and who they are not, often citing differences between the two healthcare systems—a […]
Month: June 2017
Paul Myatt: Making the NHS a great place to work for junior doctors
If the NHS is to meet the challenges it faces, trusts must do all they can to show junior doctors that they are valued and supported […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Multiculturalism: science, discourse, humanities
To recap. After C P Snow’s 1959 Rede Lecture “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution”, the Cambridge literary critic, F R Leavis, in his 1962 Richmond Lecture, “The Two […]
Edward Gilbert-Kawai: Blue-ink bandits
I write in patients’ notes in blue ink. Not only does this enable me to find my previous inserts rapidly among the ever-increasing reams of paperwork, but perhaps more importantly, […]
Ann Starrs: A critical moment to increase investments in women’s family planning needs
Investments in sexual and reproductive health are critical for saving lives and reducing ill-health among women and their children […]
Michael Brady: We now have all the tools to stop HIV for good—but stigma still persists
Almost exactly one year ago, there was a little known breakthrough that quietly started to change everything for people with HIV. The findings from the landmark PARTNER Study were published […]
Joann Elmore: When diagnostic uncertainty hits home
Joann Elmore discusses how being diagnosed with suspected melanoma altered the focus of her research […]
Kieran Walsh: What if everything you knew about medical education was wrong?
Learners have to be active. This is something that I have heard a lot and also said a lot in the years I have been involved medical education. The idea […]
Shivani Randev: The system needs to change to tackle violence against doctors in India
Reports of violence against doctors in India are no longer rare instances. They have become an everyday feature in the media. But finally doctors have started to fight back. Almost 4000 […]
Nishma Manek: How can we attract and retain a workforce that may be developing its own set of social norms?
Ian Cumming, chief executive of Health Education England, gave a speech recently at the NHS Confederation’s conference that prompted another set of millennial-bashing headlines. [1] I’m a millennial. We’re defined […]