The people living in Moria, a refugee camp in Greece, have been abandoned by Europe and treated like criminals for nothing more than wanting to be safe […]
Month: January 2018
Richard Lehman’s journal reviews—8 January 2018
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Matt Morgan: “Running a hospital is a bit like running a . . .”
Medicine needs to make, adapt, and find its own strategies, instead of borrowing from other industries […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Medical anniversaries in 2018
My list of medical anniversaries in 2018 is restricted to those that are multiples of 50 years. Thus, I have not included, for example, the 40th anniversary of the first […]
Neville Goodman’s metaphor watch: The play’s the thing
In the column about icebergs (qv), I mentioned repertoire used instead of number: “expanding repertoire of targets for immune inhibition in bladder cancer”. Repertoire and repertory are two similar words […]
Avril Danczak: Is “early cancer diagnosis” a meaningless concept?
I often see articles, posters, and advertisements stating that early diagnosis of cancer “saves lives.” An implication that general practitioners are not “doing enough” or that people “ignore symptoms” usually […]
Richard Smith: Little global progress in countering non-communicable disease
In 2011 the United Nations held a high level meeting on preventing and controlling non-communicable disease (NCD) and produced a declaration on what countries should do. In 2018 it will […]
Annette McKinnon: Patients need equal access to information
I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in the days before the internet, so I had to rely on magazines and newspaper articles as a back-up to the sparse information that […]
Adrian Boyle and Ian Higginson: This A+E crisis was entirely predictable and partly preventable
The current situation represents a failure of political and central NHS leadership, the lack of an effective response represents a failure of duty […]
Veena Raleigh: Uses of the Mental Health Act—is the data fit for purpose?
How reliable is the data collected about detentions under the Mental Health Act? Veena Raleigh looks at the data quality issues and their implications. […]