We could start by challenging the assumption that all medical students and junior doctors have a financial safety net to fall into, says Anna Harvey and Declan Murphy […]
Month: November 2019
Access to healthcare data is only of benefit if it can improve disease outcomes
Being part of the patient public group of the UK Colorectal Cancer Intelligence Hub has helped these authors recognise the power of healthcare data in research The collection and use […]
Is palliative care having an existential crisis?
Is palliative care suffering from “chronic niceness”? What is its future? Lucy Selman, Libby Sallnow, Ros Taylor, Seamus O’Mahony, and Richard Smith discuss […]
Trish Greenhalgh: Towards an institute for patient-led research
“More powerful than the march of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come” – Victor Hugo The intellectual legacy of Rosamund Snow Rosamund Snow was a social scientist […]
The name game: A call for change to psychopharmacological nomenclature in clinical practice
The old nomenclature we have for drugs used for mental health conditions may hinder patients’ understanding of their medication, say Kaleen N Hayes and Mina Tadrous […]
Doctors with drink problems: letting go of denial
It is five years since my husband died. He was an alcoholic. He was a very talented man, a brilliant clinician, articulate, funny, intuitive, creative, kind. Watching him slowly kill […]
The role of the arts within health
In 2007, Sir Nigel Crisp, then NHS chief executive, published a report concluding “arts and health are, and should be firmly recognised as being, integral to health, healthcare provision and […]
Ian Hamilton: New guidelines for prescribing medicinal cannabis—another dashed hope for patients
New guidance from NICE leaves us no clearer about the effectiveness of medicinal cannabis, says Ian Hamilton […]
Bruce Keogh: Working with military veterans is key to achieving a scar free future for all
Advances in medical research have a long established connection with armed forces veterans—nearly 80 years ago plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe founded The Guinea Pig Club, working with over 600 Second […]
Richard Villar: Revisiting warfare
They say, as a doctor, empathy is important. Yet sometimes such feelings simply go too far. No more so, perhaps, than for practitioners serving in the army, navy and air […]