Alessandra Suuberg considers the role of humor in treating or coping with mental distress […]
Year: 2020
Covid-19 and chronic kidney disease: It is time to listen to patients’ experiences
Delayed treatment has been a crucial issue As of 24 August 2020, 242,899 people in France, roughly 3‰ of the population, had tested positive for SARS-Cov-2. [1] The real number […]
Mary Higgins: The return of medical students to clinical practice is filled with uncertainty
But somehow the challenges will be overcome, hopes Mary Higgins […]
Jane Fagan: Clinical exposure is essential to medical students’ training
We can’t learn standing outside closed doors, says Jane Fagan Similar to hundreds of medical students across my medical school, thousands across Europe and millions around the world, when I […]
Sustainable medical conferences in the post-covid-19 world
The medical community should use this moment to promote international scientific conferences that are more environmentally friendly, say Etienne Delacrétaz, Romaine Delacrétaz, and Nicholas Rowe […]
Building back better research post covid-19
During the covid-19 pandemic, the public focus has been on the remarkable performance of the NHS and its dedicated workforce in coping with the huge influx of covid-19 patients, led […]
Melanie Etti: The A levels fiasco is part of a wider picture of inequality in medical school recruitment
This year’s A levels debacle is fresh proof that more needs to be done to widen access to medicine, says Melanie Etti […]
Will Stahl Timmins: A network diagram for our times
One of the most important projects I have worked on this year is the living network meta-analysis of covid-19 treatments, the first version of which was published on bmj.com in […]
Sam Allen: The women working in health and care look after us, it’s time we looked after them
There is an often trotted out statistic that women make up more than three-quarters of the NHS workforce. It’s one of those facts that is used so often that it’s […]
Patient centred care in a post-covid world
Like our sickest covid-19 patients, the NHS has been on life support since March. Many routine and necessary health services were put on hold. Retired nurses and doctors returned to the […]