There are many comparisons that can be made between climate change and coronavirus: both are causing widespread harm to health, and require urgent worldwide collaboration and action to prevent greater […]
Year: 2020
Covid-19 shows that the lives of people with a learning disability are still not treated as equal
A pandemic does not abrogate our responsibility to protect the lives and human rights of people with a learning disability, says Keri-Michѐle Lodge […]
Managing our expectations as we return to clinical school
As students return to medical school after the disruptions caused by covid-19, they should be keeping their expectations realistic, advise Laura Nunez-Mulder, Mahmoud Elbahnasawi, and Saakshi Bansal […]
Covid-19 is magnifying the digital divide
The covid-19 pandemic has precipitated a digital boom in healthcare, with radical digitisation reported in countries around the world. [1] As the initial peak declines, the NHS is relying on […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Laughter haters
Between 1532 and 1564 the French physician François Rabelais, initially using the anagrammatic pseudonym Alcofribas Nasier, published a scurrilous five-volume novel La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel, in which […]
Rapid co-creation of information resources for surgical patients during covid-19
Surgical patients are facing new territory. On the one hand they hear that admission to hospital for elective surgery carries an increased risk of getting covid-19, on the other, that […]
Hannah Deacon: Patients still do not have access to medical cannabis
For any parent hearing their child’s scream as they have a seizure, and not breathing or responding, would be a harsh wake-up call that life is far from normal. My […]
Additional funds for medical school places must continue beyond 2020
This year’s group of A level students who want to pursue medicine have already experienced considerable disruption. The government and universities must do all they can to support them, say […]
Margaret McCartney: We need better evidence on non-drug interventions for covid-19
Non drug interventions should be based on evidence. We need to generate this to inform the covid-19 and future pandemics, argues Margaret McCartney […]
They also serve who only stand and wait: Ethical and spiritual response to the covid-19 pandemic
John Milton’s sonnet “On his blindness,” expresses the sense of powerlessness, frustration, and even guilt that many feel in responding to situations beyond their control, where their ability for active […]