Hospitals should remove any barriers to doctors eating and drinking during the working day […]
Month: January 2019
Deal or no deal? The Brexit process has descended into farce but will it become a tragedy?
The risk of a “no deal” Brexit is now extremely high and, if May’s plan goes wrong, it will be the NHS and its patients that bear the brunt of […]
Katie Walker and Michael Ben-Meir: It’s time to think hard about how clinicians work in a digital age
Patients and doctors would both like more access to each other and scribes can enable this, say Katie Walker and Michael Ben-Meir […]
Tim Spector: Breakfast—the most important meal of the day?
The mantra of breakfast being the most important meal of the day has been ingrained in most of us from an early age—from our mother’s mouth as we were late […]
Billy Boland: How can you know what culture you are operating in, and can it be measured?
It was Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic Philosopher who famously described the concept of constant change. As we move through our life and careers, what appears at first appear to be constant, […]
The courts should judge applications for assisted suicide, sparing the doctor-patient relationship
A patient’s right to assisted suicide should be legislated for in parliament, officiated by the courts, and should not impinge on the doctor-patient relationship, says Zoe Fritz […]
Mark Pickering: Religious and non-religious people share objections to assisted suicide
Vulnerable people may request assisted suicide because they think they are a burden, and the limits of any new law could be expanded, writes Mark Pickering […]
Richard Smith: Can fiction save us from climate catastrophe?
After reading John Lanchester’s chilling dystopian novel The Wall about how the world will be after climate catastrophe I had the unsettling sense for several days that the world he […]
Richard Taunt: Rethinking medicine—a longer term plan
Change takes time. We need to prepare for the future, not just firefight the present. The recent publication of the NHS Long Term Plan has given commentators an opportunity to […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—29 January 2019
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]