Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Month: April 2019
Louella Vaughan: Should we use pay incentives for shortage specialties? The evidence suggests it’s worth a try
Pay incentives have always been controversial within the NHS. Only recently, David Oliver argued against their use in boosting numbers in acute specialties, such as emergency medicine, acute medicine, intensive […]
Training to be unpopular: five short steps to becoming a public health advocate
Josie Murray and Nicholas Leigh-Hunt Coming to the end of their training, many final year public health registrars may reflect on whether they have been able to make a difference, […]
PHE’s partnerships with gambling and alcohol industry-funded charities: time to put the cards on the table
Social determinants of health (such as income, social status, educational level, and physical or social environments) are firmly in the mainstream of health policy, exemplified by their inclusion in the […]
Hearfield and Collier: What can we do about internet “misuse”?
We are constantly bombarded with terrifying stories about the internet. Recently, Instagram was implicated in the suicide of a 14 year old girl—her father believes that her death was in […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Important differences
I have previously discussed the idea of a minimal clinically important difference (MCID), and in my last piece focused on the word “clinically”. I suggested that it implied activity at […]
Can AI fulfil its medical promise?
AI technology has challenges to overcome, but it can be a force for good in medicine, say Luxia Zhang, Guilan Kong, Liwei Wang, and Qi-Min Zhan […]
I Look Like a First World War Surgeon
In 2015, women surgeons tweeted images of themselves with the hashtag #Ilooklikeasurgeon (pictured). It was a ground-swell attempt to change unconscious gender bias surrounding the way people think about clinicians […]
Richard Smith: Using behavioural economics to improve healthcare and prevent doctor burnout
Since Daniel Kahneman’s magnificent book, Thinking Fast and Slow, made us think differently about ourselves—as Darwin and Freud had done before—we have become familiar with the ideas of flawed thinking, […]
Kieran Walsh: Could blockchain be applied to healthcare professional education?
Blockchain is “an open, public, distributed, and secure digital registry where information transactions are secured and have a clear origin, explicit pathways, and concrete value.” [1] It is a technology […]