Revolving doors are used to facilitate entry or exit into a building. The trick with using these doors is always to get your timing right. Too fast or too slow […]
Month: December 2017
Clare Gerada: Why has medicine become such a miserable profession?
Medicine has always been a hard taskmaster, yet more and more we hear about the unrest and dissatisfaction of doctors across the world […]
Richard Smith: Strong evidence of bias against research from low income countries
I have taught classes on how to get published in scientific journals in many low and middle income countries, and just about every participant in every class has thought that […]
Jen Gosling: “Difficult” is a difficult word
“They keep saying I’m difficult”, the patient wept. “I feel so guilty; I worry that they think I’m not co-operating”. It was the second time in a week that we […]
Ruth Campbell: How can we make sure that immigration detainees’ health-related human rights are protected?
The UK opened its first “detention unit” in 1970—in a converted road research laboratory near Heathrow Airport. The Immigration Appeals Act 1969 had just been passed, and the UK was […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—4 December 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Peter Brindley and Matt Morgan: All I want for Christmas…is to slow down
Digital addiction is a real barrier to patient centred care […]
Erik Silfversten: The WannaCry cyber attack could be the first of many if the NHS takes no action
The NHS and other public sector organisations need to improve their cybersecurity processes—and fast […]
Amitava Banerjee: At what point does a disease become neglected and who decides?
My first global health experience was an elective in South Africa during medical school in 2001, at a time when antiretroviral therapy was not available to the vast majority of […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Paramedics
To begin with, flex your mental muscles. To flex (Latin flectere) means to bend; a flex is easily bent. Reflection is bending back, of objects, light (as in the retinal […]