It was seven hours into Suki’s shift when her tech started getting the shakes. They were operating on the prosthetic arm of Mr Baines, Patrick, date of birth 7th April […]
Month: December 2017
Hannah Harper: Project Seahorse
Eva Albemarle [Eva@AAKagency.com] To: Harvey Rudd Monday, December 14, 2099, 13:23 Subject: Project Seahorse Phase 2 Harvey, Great to meet you earlier. As requested, please find below a bit […]
Annabel Ferriman: Doctors as polymaths—12 months of BMJ Confidential
The sheer breadth of doctors’ talents and abilities shone out from the pages of BMJ Confidential this year. We had doctors who were poets, masterchefs, novelists, comedians, actors and singers. […]
Matthew Castle: Burnout
I don’t want to do this job any more. I’ve had enough. There. I’ve said it. Well, you wanted a statement, an explanation for those data anomalies, and that’s it, […]
Richard Smith: Celebrating the Dutch global health doctors programme
The Dutch, an outward looking people, have long had a unique programme for training what were called “tropical doctors” and are now called “global health doctors.” The two years and […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word. . .Wise men pharmacology
The three magi, the three Kings of the East, or the three wise men (Latin magus, a wise man, Greek μάγος), are also known as the three Kings of Cologne, […]
Tessa Richards: Patient leaders—healthcare’s untapped workforce
The health sector needs to learn how to work with patient leaders, says Tessa Richards. […]
Richard Lehman: The tale of the greedy metalworker
In his own lifetime, Leo Tolstoy’s best-selling book was not War and Peace or Anna Karenina, which sold by thousands to middle-class Russians. But his book Azbuka, sold by hundreds […]
Filip A Dabrowski: Junior doctors go on hunger strike in Poland
For the past twenty years the public healthcare system in Poland has been struggling with extremely low financing. In 2005, countries such as France and Germany were spending 11.1% and […]
Andrew Dana Hudson: Mend and Make Do
“Alright, Alfie, spit in the cup then, lad.” Poppy was good at this, I could tell. The boy hocked up a rope of saliva, which she caught deftly in her […]