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 […]
Year: 2018
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 […]
Margo Mountjoy on the Larry Nassar tragedy—never again
Victims were silenced, intimidated, repeatedly told it was medical treatment and even forced to go back for continued sexual assault . . . and so as Larry was abusing me […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Austin Bradford Hill’s viewpoints
In my last two blogs I have used Austin Bradford Hill’s lecture, “The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?”, which he gave in 1965 to the Royal Society of Medicine’s […]
John Appleby: A dedicated tax to fund the NHS—a zombie policy idea?
We don’t need a new tax to fund the NHS, but rather the political decision to spend more on the NHS […]