It’s just over a year ago that an essay called “Tolerating Uncertainty” appeared in the NEJM, headed by a quotation from Keats: “At once it struck me what quality went […]
Month: January 2018
Chris Moulton: A+E and the winter that never ends
We need more staff, more acute hospital beds, and more space and facilities in social care […]
Chris Simms: CDC’s word ban—the placement of politics over science is part of a larger pattern
The words we use matter and can influence what we think and how we act […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Alpha, beta, gamma . . . zeta
In the Christmas issue of The BMJ, recently out, you can read about my exploration of nonexistent authors listed in citations in PubMed, a never ending source of general amusement […]
William Cayley: Hypertension and inverse care
We need to find ways to care for all of those at risk, not just those who have the ability to seek care […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—2 January 2018
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Richard Smith: Migrant health—political hysteria but insufficient attention to an issue that will increase substantially
Although there is political hysteria about migrants in Europe, the health of migrants receives insufficient attention. That was the main message to emerge from Imperial College’s Institute of Global Health […]