Jack Dickenson opens up about his experience of studying and practising medicine with a stammer […]
Month: August 2019
Martin McKee: If leaked Operation Yellowhammer document is wrong, then the government must publish the right one
Grave concerns prompted by leaked analysis of no deal Brexit preparations cannot be dispelled or tackled by hollow assurances, says Martin McKee […]
Domestic political alliances with conservative forces in the US is costing women their health at home and abroad
The Trump administration’s ideological commitment to the domestic anti-abortion lobby is endangering women across the Americas, say Hani Serag et al […]
Zoe Steley and Sandy Robertson: First aid for the climate emergency is better delivered as a team
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s decision to divest from fossil fuels is a welcome step, say Zoe Steley and Sandy Robertson […]
Dominic Arnold: Junior doctor changeovers need a steadier start
The current sink or swim approach to junior doctors starting new rotations serves neither doctors nor patients, says Dominic Arnold […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Affinity
Last week I discussed Paracelsus’s well-known statement, first published in his Sieben Defensiones in 1564, that “only the dose determines that a thing is not a poison.” I suggested, based […]
Recruit for values, train for skills—what medical school admissions could learn from nursing associate recruitment programmes
More medical schools need to recognise that A-level grades are not the best way to judge the potential to be a doctor, says Katie Knight […]
Richard Smith: A novel that tells brutal truths about doctors, hospitals, and the treatment of dying patients
The truth is in the fiction, says Martin Amis, novelist and essayist. Somethings are just too painful, too awful, or too revealing to write about yourself or your colleagues, but […]
Kieran Walsh: Too much medicine—practical tools that could help
Doctors are constantly being told that they overdiagnose and overtreat their patients. They are told that they overdiagnose and overtreat a range of conditions—but one simple example is the overdiagnosis […]
Uhuru Kenyatta: Kenya’s social shift
Over recent years, Kenya has tackled literacy, per capita income, and life expectancy. Emboldened by its progress, the country is now rising to a new challenge […]