With work and the NHS the way that it is these days, it is really easy to take your eye off things like continuing professional development (CPD). As our roles […]
Month: December 2017
Peter Taylor: Achieving the health related SDGs—why we need major shifts in thinking
Real momentum is building around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as national governments integrate the 2030 Agenda with their own policy processes. Recognition of the multi-sectoral nature of the SDGs […]
Kieran Walsh: Will efficiency trump education?
You are working in an emergency department. You see an 85-year-old man who has fallen at home. He is confused but not in any pain. He has a mild fever, […]
Matthew Warren: The Oracle
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me. – William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, Scene […]
Medical trainees should question why they preemptively order “routine” tests and investigations
Medical students from around the world utter the Hippocratic Oath when graduating medical school as an age-old commitment to professionalism. Yet, much of what we are taught during medical school […]
Pathology risks being left behind as conceptual and technological advances accelerate
Back in 2007 a diagnostic biopsy from a patient with lung cancer would frequently yield a one line diagnosis from the reporting pathologist; “This biopsy shows non-small cell carcinoma.” A […]
Elisabeth Ingram-Wallace: Opsnizing Dad
I decided OPSNIZE was for me when Dad lost his trousers on the bus. He threw them out the window. Then he rolled around on the floor, screaming his own […]
Diane O’Carroll: Many women working in the NHS have #metoo stories to share
My hope is for a culture change where sexism is no longer dismissed as “having a laugh” […]
Richard Smith: A public health witch hunt—bad for everybody
At the end of last week I received this email: “Greetings from India, and I hope this finds you well! My name is Anoo. I’m a journalist based in Delhi, […]
Matt Morgan and Peter Brindley: Everybody’s Free (To Be Kind)
The commencement address that nobody asked for These two middling authors have long hoped somebody would ask them to deliver a commencement. The fact that this is unjustified has not […]