We need to make feedback meaningful for doctors and easier for patients […]
Year: 2018
Andy Haines: Climate change must be reframed as a health issue
The Paris Climate Change agreement, reached in December 2015, was a political triumph and has now been ratified by 171 parties to the treaty out of a total of 197. The […]
Giles Maskell: The new chest x ray
What would be required if we were seriously to contemplate the replacement of the chest x ray with CT scanning in the acute setting? […]
Richard Smith: A Big Brother future for science publishing?
There have been big changes in science publishing in the 25 years since the appearance of the internet, but at the same time science publishing is still dominated by journals, […]
Martin McKee: What would a “no deal” Brexit mean—and what does it tell us about those who advocate for it?
It is difficult to envisage a worse outcome for the United Kingdom than “no deal” Brexit—it would have serious implications for health […]
Anya de Iongh: Patients need to be activated, but so do clinicians and the system
It has been three and half years since The King’s Fund published a report on Patient Activation, and since then patient activation is increasingly on people’s radars. Patient activation is […]
Monika Gattinger: How can Europe be more traumatising than Mosul?
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 […]
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 […]