Survey data recently published in BMJ Open suggest that surgery continues to be a male-dominated field where most women working in the profession have experienced sexism. As a historian of […]
Month: January 2019
Nick Hopkinson: Dynamite the sewers!—the UK’s shameful record on poverty
Installed in his first job in the poverty-stricken Welsh Valleys, young Dr Manson, the hero of AJ Cronin’s 1937 classic The Citadel is faced with a cluster of cases of typhoid. […]
Planning for multimorbidity—did the NHS long term plan go far enough?
The long term plan for the NHS in England aims to “future proof” the NHS for the next 10 years—but doesn’t prescribe an explicit national strategy to address one of […]
Hyperbole in surgical manuscripts: time to drop the paradigm?
As competition grows and financial interests of research expand, researchers and the institutions that employ them are tempted to exaggerate the relevance of research findings. Vinkers and colleagues examined how […]
Kieran Walsh: Taking my own medicine
Influenza is a serious illness and so we need to do all that we can to treat and prevent it. Until recently, prevention has largely evolved around vaccination. But now […]
Alex Nowbar’s weekly research reviews—22 January 2019
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Greta McLachlan: Women in surgery—it’s improving, but slowly
“No carpenter, smith, weaver, or women shall practise surgery,” proclaimed Henry VIII some time before he granted the charter for the company of barber surgeons in 1540. Fortunately surgery has come […]
Rammya Mathew: Is partnership what the next generation of GPs want?
I didn’t go into medicine with the aspiration of becoming a business owner. Managing premises, keeping an eye on income flow and trying to balance the books are all things […]
Richard Smith: Bed management in hospitals—horrible and badly in need of reform
The British public is used to operations being cancelled and to whole hospitals being unable to admit more patients because no beds are available. A recent television programme showed how […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Nihilitis
Here’s a word that isn’t to be found in any English dictionary, as far as I can tell, “nihilitis”. I have previously discussed the numerous ramifications of the IndoEuropean root […]