Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Year: 2020
Vulnerable young adults in care homes have been forgotten in the pandemic
My son, an only child, was born three months prematurely in the early 1990s. He suffered a bleed into his brain at birth and now in his late 20s is […]
Sheila Bird: Test and trace in England is shaping up as a design and discovery fiasco
Failures in the design and evaluation of England’s Test and Trace programme could be resolved if we collect some core data, says Sheila Bird […]
Nicky Philpott: Ending the NHS’s contribution to the climate emergency
I met a climate refugee the other day—a woman who had lost her home in the wildfires in California. She was forced to leave her community because she could no […]
Why we need to keep using the patient made term “Long Covid”
“Long Covid” was first used by Elisa Perego as a Twitter hashtag in May to describe her own experience of a multiphasic, cyclical condition that differed in time course and […]
Andrew Goddard: Covid-19 and the workforce—ready and waiting
The NHS is preparing for the second wave and, to understand how well prepared we are, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) surveyed its members last week. Depending on your […]
Daniel Sokol: New guidance from the GMC—what constitutes meaningful dialogue?
Some 12 years after the 2008 version, the General Medical Council (GMC) has just published new guidance on decision making and consent, which will come into effect on 9 November 2020. […]
Zoe Norris: “Last Rights” makes the case for assisted dying
As doctors we have a duty to listen to these views, argues Zoe Norris In an endorsement of a new book launched this summer, the celebrated author Julian Barnes tells […]
Anisha Page: Celebrating the gift of the cadaver
Medical students who work with cadavers should give themselves the space to process this experience fully, not tarnish it by trying to pretend it is mundane, writes Anisha Page […]
We must take a One Health approach to improve human pandemic infection control
The covid-19 pandemic must serve as a wake-up call It is now clear that global and national preparedness and response to the covid-19 pandemic has been inadequate. Many of the […]