The movement to change what a doctor looks like is a daily, incremental effort […]
Month: September 2018
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Medicine, medicines, and the Medicines Act 1968
As I pointed out last week, the IndoEuropean root MED, to measure or take appropriate measures, has given rise to a large number of English words, among them “medicine” and […]
Nick Hopkinson: Wellness, meaning, and control
“Being old enough to die is an achievement not a defeat, and the freedom it brings is worth celebrating.” From this striking vantage point, Barbara Ehrenreich, in her recent book […]
Kathryn Harrison: Social prescribing—let’s not leap in without the evidence
We need to provide patients and their GPs the time and space to build therapeutic relationships […]
Unreported clinical trial of the week: Gabapentin for cerebellar ataxia in degenerative and inflammatory CNS-disease (2008-005167-33)
Nick DeVito and Ben Goldacre Background The US FDA Amendments Act (FDAAA 2007) requires certain clinical trials to report their results onto ClinicalTrials.gov within one year of completion. European Union […]
Susan Jebb: Interventions to treat obesity work—so why am I not celebrating?
The evidence increasingly points to the system “failing” to offer people support for weight loss […]
Charging for maternity care: How did the “hostile environment” go this far?
Vulnerable women are bearing the brunt, say Neal Russell, Sophie Windsor, and Susan Bewley […]
Agnes Arnold-Forster and Alison Moulds: Medical women in popular fiction
We need to transform cultural narratives to address inequalities in medicine […]
Peter Brindley: Vive la différence? Polite Canadian suggestions for those working in the British NHS
Canada is multicultural and multilingual in the same way as your average British emergency room. Both work better when we listen as much as we talk […]
Samir Dawlatly: The NHS needs a Reformation, not reform
One of the foremost concerns about the NHS, which has led to the formation of a number of pressure groups, is the worry that it is slowly being privatised. It […]