Students need to be trained and assessed in a way that prepares them for working with patients who increasingly have multiple pathologies and comorbidities […]
Month: July 2017
Enrico Coiera et al: First compute no harm
We will need new principles and regulations to govern medical artificial intelligence […]
Michael Gill: The pace and scope of patient centricity is too slow and narrow
The phrase “patient centricity” makes us all feel good. Health professionals adopt the term regularly, spend more time with patients, express more concern, and try to push the policy envelope […]
Michael Fell: Household smart meters could be used to monitor our health
Within years, almost every home in Britain, and many other countries around the world, could be equipped with a device capable of delivering an array of remote health and care […]
Kerryn Husk: Social prescribing offers huge potential but requires a nuanced evidence base
The evidence base for social prescribing lags behind practice and needs to catch up […]
Emiliano De Cristofaro: Genome data can never be fully anonymised
Security issues that are specific to genome data need to be considered […]
Kawaldip Sehmi: Is it time to develop a new specialism—migrant and refugee medicine?
The idea came to me in September 2016 when the United Nations General Assembly held a high level summit to address the large movements of refugees and migrants. At the […]
David Nicholl: Why I’ve changed my views on assisted dying
A change in the law would enable those in the UK faced with a terminal illness the choice of a death with dignity on their own terms […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—17 July 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Parodies of resistential postmodernism
The IndoEuropean root WED, with its o-grade form WOD, meant to speak. Hence the Greek word for a song or lyric poem, an ode, ᾠδή, and derivatives such as odeon, […]