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Month: November 2017

Tessa Richards: Patient and public involvement in research goes global

November 30, 2017

More and more, organisations are seeking to push the envelope towards “co-production” of research […]

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Patient and public perspectives, Tessa Richards3 Comments

Return failing drug and alcohol detoxification services to NHS control

November 30, 2017

We must draw attention to the evisceration of a previously well-functioning addiction treatment system […]

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Scott O Lilienfeld: The role of psychiatrists in the age of Trump

November 29, 2017

The rise of Trump has ignited fierce debate about the Goldwater rule, but what, if anything, would a formal diagnosis of Trump tell us? […]

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US healthcare1 Comment

Jay Lemery et al: We need climate doctors

November 29, 2017

There is a looming healthcare crisis, and we are woefully short of doctors…  Sound familiar? Except in this case, we are talking about the “biggest global health threat of the […]

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Nishma Manek and David Haslam: Denigration of general practice is still rife 

November 28, 2017

We must confront systematic denigration within medical training, and foster mutual respect between specialties […]

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Richard Smith: Angry at the delay, waste, and inefficiency caused by medical journals

November 28, 2017

A friend from a middle income country writes to me in despair about the way he and his colleagues have been treated by medical journals. His story made me angry […]

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Richard Smith1 Comment

Kieran Walsh: How to avoid an F in your medical exams

November 27, 2017

The first time I read Richard Benson’s book on how to get an F in your exams, I was seriously worried about the future of civilization. When asked for an […]

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Richard Lehman’s journal review—27 November 2017

November 27, 2017

Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]

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Richard Lehman's weekly review of medical journals1 Comment

Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Intro and outro: exnovation and outroduction

November 24, 2017

Last week I discussed the use of the word “de-adoption” in the title of a paper recently published in The BMJ: “De-adoption and exnovation in the use of carotid revascularisation”. […]

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Anita Charlesworth: The NHS can’t continue to live in this hand to mouth way

November 24, 2017

It’s a topsy, turvy world—Phil Hammond delivered his autumn budget, the first after the general election, and announced some of the starkest economic news for years. Ten years after the […]

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