As a student, winding through the neighbourhoods of Philadelphia on the way to the medical library I would fixate on the medical school buildings, giving little thought to the communities […]
Month: September 2017
Sae Ochi: Lessons learned from the Japanese triple disaster—advice for primary healthcare workers
The current volatile international climate, epitomised by tension between North Korea and the United States, is causing concern that the world might be more vulnerable to human made disasters. Furthermore […]
Matthias Wienold: Medical education must be a joint enterprise
If the medical educators of the future are to be experts in patient centredness, this must be reflected at conferences, says Matthias Wienold […]
Allyson Pollock and Graham Kirkwood: Tackle and scrum should be banned in school rugby
Evidence shows that collision sports, such as youth rugby, carry high rates of injury […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—25 September 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Richard Smith: Schopenhauer, the Economist, and cancer
This morning I’ve read a disappointingly shallow account in the Economist of the attempt to cure cancer and a quote from Schopenhauer that could be sent as a letter to […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Competence
To recap: the triad of knowledge, skills, and performance is, I have suggested, a modern trivium, underpinned by a modern quadrivium—literacy, numeracy, oracy, and computeracy. In its document Working with […]
Ahmed Kazmi: A GP’s reflections 100 days on from the Grenfell Tower fire
Grenfell has brought important lessons to the foreground for us as medics […]
Shifu Xiao: There is still discrimination against individuals with mental health problems in China
People in China feel unable to discuss mental health problems openly […]
Responding effectively to NCDs is now the major healthcare challenge in South East Asia
South East Asia now has the fastest rising NCD rates of anywhere in the world […]