There has been much discussion about social prescribing since funding announcements were made over the summer. Yesterday it was announced that more than 1000 link workers will be recruited by […]
Month: January 2019
The robot needs a human heart—why AI in medicine brings moral choices into focus
In a crisp, white building deep in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, teams of people make moral choices on your behalf. The development of self-driving cars may improve global […]
Hearfield and Collier: We need to do more to help with skill fade after extended leave
There is plenty to think about when returning to work after an extended period of work absence. This is before even considering how a break from clinical practice has affected […]
Michael FitzPatrick and Matthew Roycroft: Staffing—the single biggest threat to medical training
An overstretched workforce has repercussions deep into the future, say Michael FitzPatrick and Matthew Roycroft […]
Paul Simpson and Anita Jain: Emergency measures alone won’t stop New Delhi from choking
Delhi’s air pollution problem requires sustained and longer term solutions […]
Why are so many doctors quitting the NHS?—it’s time to ask the right questions
The mayday call is out—urgent action is required […]
Frank D’Ambrosio: Why I recommend medicinal cannabis as a replacement analgesic for opioids
I am an orthopaedic spine surgeon. When I started my practice in 1993, my focus was predominantly on reconstructive surgery of the spine for back pain. After 20 years of […]
Richard Smith: Pharmaceutical companies follow public funders of research in efforts to reform science publishing
Funders of research are the one group who have the power to change the slow, inefficient, old-fashioned, wasteful, arbitrary, and, some would say, iniquitous way that we publish science. About […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Naming the digits—the middle finger
Having previously discussed the thumb and the index finger, I turn to the middle finger. The Greeks called the middle finger ὁ μέσος δάκτυλος and likewise the Romans called it […]
Doctors of the World: a public health approach to ending the epidemic of gun violence in the US
Almost one year ago, on 14 February 2018, a former student of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida entered the school armed with an array of semi-automatic weapons […]