Hadiza Bawa-Garba, a paediatrician convicted of gross negligence manslaughter, has been granted leave to appeal her erasure from the medical register. The General Medical Council’s (GMC) argument that a manslaughter […]
Month: April 2018
Poonam Khetrapal Singh: The monsoon presents a pressing public health threat to the Rohingya
Urgent funding is needed to protect the health and wellbeing of Rohingya refugees throughout the rainy season […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Tit for tat
There is currently a lot of talk about tit for tat, whether in the spheres of diplomacy or trade. Of course, when medical readers see the term “tit for tat”, […]
Pallavi Bradshaw: Are disciplinary procedures in NHS trusts aiding a culture of fear in healthcare?
Ongoing debate around the high profile Bawa-Garba case has thrown the concept of an open, learning culture in healthcare into question.To regain confidence, the law that is applied in gross […]
Benjamin Mazer: Could a postmortem communication conference improve doctor-patient relations?
The best doctor-patient relationships, and the worst, often perform their finale at an autopsy. Samuel Shem, in his novel The House of God, called the autopsy the “red rose of […]
Unreported clinical trial of the week: antibiotics to reduce propionibacterium acnes in shoulder arthroplasty (NCT03115177)
Every week this new series will uncover an unreported clinical trial […]
Stephen A. Matlin: The polio dividend—opportunities and challenges
On the brink of completing its mission to eradicate polio worldwide, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is now ramping down in preparation for closure. There were only 22 cases […]
Kieran Walsh: Ethical machine learning for healthcare?
It’s the year 2020 and your hospital is at the cutting edge of technology in healthcare. It is developing particular expertise in machine learning. Staff are looking at all possible […]
Richard Smith: Urban health—finding a way around the health system
Urbanisation, said Jo Ivey Boufford, president of the International Society for Urban Health, at a C3 breakfast seminar last week, is one of the four great challenges to health along with […]
Richard Lehman’s journal reviews—3 April 2018
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]