A new series looks at the World Bank’s expanding role in global health […]
Month: August 2017
Ronnie Cowan: Drug policy reform is required, we can’t afford to delay for long
We should be addressing how we think about drugs and drug laws […]
Jane Dickson: It is never appropriate for women not to be able to afford emergency contraception
Recently we have seen a rallying of women in response to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and Women’s Equality Party call for a reduction in the price of emergency […]
Terence Stephenson: The GMC is listening to what doctors are telling us on revalidation
The GMC is often the misguided target for the ire of those frustrated by the burden of regulation […]
Chris Simms: Confederates and Canadian colonialists—imprisoned by the past
It may be easier to topple monuments and memorials than erase the memories they evoke or the policies that sustain them. Canada’s experience is not the Confederates’ in Charlottesville, yet […]
Mark Watts: Are multi-disciplinary teams damaging our health?
The introduction of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) into the regular practice of cancer and other specialties within medicine must surely be one of the leading advancements in delivery of healthcare […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—29 August 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Art
Ancient physicians considered medicine to be an art, typified by an aphorism of Hippocrates: Plato repeatedly referred to medicine as an art, for example in the Gorgias and the Symposium, […]
Wendy Burn: Girl X has a bed, for now, but what next?
Stigma must not stop investment in mental health services, says the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists […]
Allen Frances: We must not confuse Trump’s bad behavior with mental illness
Trump must be contained, but the proper tools are political, not psychiatric […]