Matt Morgan discusses the gradual increase in volume of mental workload that doctors have to deal with […]
Month: September 2017
Joel Lexchin: We’ve missed an opportunity to debate FDA funding and user fees
In mid-August 2017, Donald Trump, the President of the United States, signed the FDA Reauthorization Act 2017, under which drug and device makers pay the FDA a fee for every […]
Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers: Funders and regulators are more important than journals in fixing the waste in research
Funders and regulators have the principal power to implement most of the solutions needed to reduce research waste […]
Nick Smallwood: Young cancer patients advocate for improved care
For many young cancer survivors, the impact of cancer does not stop when treatment does […]
Neville Goodman’s metaphor watch: Arctic waters
An iceberg is a useful metaphor. It appears most commonly as the tip of the iceberg, and it is a warning. Nine-tenths of an iceberg is under water, usually extending well […]
Disavowal: the great excuser that may destroy us
By Richard Smith and David Pencheon In 2007 Fiona Godlee, editor of The BMJ and somebody who has been concerned about the environment for at least 30 years, was outed […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—4 September 2017
NEJM 31 Aug 2017 Vol 377 Liraglutide and the egg-box Imagine that you are an egg-seller who is short of real eggs. But you happen to have lots of egg-white, […]
Taher Qassim: Yemenis are being left to rot in a forgotten war
The cholera epidemic in Yemen is raging in the midst of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Science—the cutting edge
The IndoEuropean root from which the word “science” eventually descends is SEK, or in an extended form SKEI, meaning to cut. In Greek σχίζειν meant to split or rend, giving […]
Richard Smith: A critique of Cyril Chantler’s plan for saving the NHS
Cyril Chantler—paediatric nephrologist, medical school dean, NHS manager, former chair of Great Ormond Street, and much else—is quite possibly the wisest man in the NHS. So we should play close […]