To those teaching and researching the medical humanities, major exhibitions of great art represent a wonderful opportunity for a focal illumination of how medicine and the arts interact. However, for […]
Month: July 2017
Pauline Castres: Climate change cannot wait
The UK government’s climate advisers’ call for action The Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the UK government’s official climate adviser, recently delivered its latest assessment of the UK’s progress to […]
Richard Smith: Giving medical students patient contact through online consultation
Medical students arrive at medical school hungry to have contact with patients, but it can be unfair to unleash on patients students who know nothing of medicine and until yesterday […]
Junaid Nabi: Can addressing the spiritual needs of patients help us deliver high quality end of life care?
Should doctors only engage in conversations about life, death, and dying when it pertains to clinical matters? Or is spiritual care part of a physician’s duties? […]
Claire McDaniel and Daniel Marchalik: The other side of research in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Doctor’s Book Club Rebecca Skloot—The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks On 27 August 1963, Emanuel Mandel, the director of medicine at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital (JCDH), told his […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—3 July 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Martin McKee: Theresa May’s proposals on EU citizens’ rights are neither fair nor serious
Anyone concerned with the long term future of the NHS should be very worried […]
Matt Morgan: Medical assessment in the age of the robot
The ability for doctors to ask the right questions and deal with uncertainty is becoming more important than ever […]