Until we talk about racism openly and teach doctors and medical students how to tackle it, we won’t see real change, says Saroo Sharda […]
Year: 2020
Covid-19: Is it reasonable to ask retired doctors to return to “duty”
In certain circumstances, and for a variety of reasons, patients choose to refuse medical treatment. [1] These decisions, in the absence of cognitive impairment, are typically respected by clinicians. Similarly, […]
Tom Jefferson: Covid-19—we live in surreal times
To me, the term “surreal” means dream like reality. That is what I felt when sitting at a table in my local Chinese restaurant in Rome. I noticed the waiting […]
Women from ethnic minorities face endemic structural racism when seeking and accessing healthcare
A Cultural Safety model provides the key to unlocking the door to equality in maternity care, say Amali Lokugamage and Alice Meredith […]
David Oliver: A troubled care home market should concern us all
The success or failure of our care home market has serious implications for all health and social care services, warns David Oliver […]
Abraar Karan: To control the covid-19 outbreak, young, healthy patients should avoid the emergency room
Young, healthy people with symptoms of covid-19 can help to prevent outbreaks in emergency rooms where our society’s sickest will be seeking care, says Abraar Karan […]
Rakhee Shah: Poverty is having an increasingly detrimental effect on children’s health and wellbeing in the UK
In 2017, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health published a landmark report looking at key indicators of infant, child and young people’s health. Uniquely, the State of Child […]
What an opioid safety initiative can teach us about using information to improve patient outcomes
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) takes pride in being a learning healthcare system. Our recent paper exemplifies how the VHA translates that broad principle into action. Building on a decade […]
Behavioural strategies for reducing covid-19 transmission in the general population
Human behaviour will determine how quickly covid-19 spreads, say Susan Michie and colleagues […]
Amitha Kalaichandran: Can we crowdsource a diagnosis?
Two recent US initiatives: the New York Times’ rare disease column and a TBS series called Chasing the Cure are pointing to an emerging trend in the media: the idea […]