Abraar Karan offers his guide to new doctors who are swapping the book learning of medicine with taking care of real people […]
Month: July 2019
The transformative power of patient narratives in healthcare education
Patient narrative and experience are too often ignored as a resource for improving educational and regulatory practices, say Rebecca Baines, Charlotte Denniston, and James Munro […]
John Hyslop: Doctors declare climate emergency
Last week at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting I proposed that the BMA declare a climate emergency and campaign for carbon neutrality by 2030. The motion was passed overwhelmingly into […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Composite
Ideally, when studying the effects of an intervention one wants to measure the final outcome or outcomes. For example, the real endpoints of treating hypertension are the incidences of its […]
Amina Ahmed and Carron Layfield: Patient partnership in an academic research unit
Amina Ahmed and Carron Layfield discuss how they set up a collaborative initiative at the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology in Nottingham and what it’s achieved […]
Zoe Carre: Take home naloxone is not reaching those who most need it
Naloxone is key is to addressing the current opioid crisis, but poor systemic distribution means it isn’t saving the lives it should, says Zoe Carre […]
The NHS must behave as an environmental anchor to mitigate the impacts of climate change
The NHS is one of the UK”s biggest contributors to climate change, and top down reform is too slow, but clinical staff can kick start change, say Nada Al-Hadithy and […]
Peter Brindley: Making your mark and weathering the storm
Whether it’s braving the needle, raising children, or training doctors sometimes you just have to weather the storm and rely on your crew, says Peter Brindley […]
Duncan Jarvies: It’s time for healthcare to be a better LGBT+ ally
If doctors want to be a LGBT+ ally it’s time to go beyond kind words and take some action, says Duncan Jarvies […]
Terence Stephenson: Reducing questionable research practices and biases
The greatest threat to medical science is not fabrication of results but “presentational fraud,” it is also the hardest to deal with, says Terence Stephenson […]