As a senior paediatric trainee (ST8) in a busy district general hospital I am used to doing regular paediatric outpatient clinics. As the covid-19 pandemic took hold in the UK, […]
Year: 2020
Trupti Gilada: Medicine during covid-19—the healing touch without the human touch
The barrier that personal protective equipment creates between healthcare staff and their patients has changed the emotional and psychological dimensions of healing, says Trupti Gilada […]
We have to teach doctors about injustice
Only by understanding inequality can clinicians start to heal their patients and communities, write Utpal Sandesara, Lauren Kelly, and Adeline Goss […]
Volunteer activity by medical students during the initial phases of covid-19
The covid-19 pandemic has changed almost all aspects of our world, necessitating rapid and flexible adaptation. Medical schools are having to deal with the pandemic as organizations responsible for teaching […]
Covid-19 has made us realise we must not take universal health coverage for granted
Italy is one of the countries in the world most affected by the covid-19 pandemic. [1] However, hopefully soon, Italy shall overcome covid-19 and the time will come to assess […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Benefits, harms, and three tales of retractions
Here are three tales of retractions and a puzzle. A tale of apparent benefit In a tweet on 16 April, the prolific Professor Mandeep R Mehra, whose 2020 PubMed record […]
Training matters: the need for kindness, flexibility, and leniency
The covid-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on many aspects of human life, including that of doctors in training. A number of important changes to their daily working schedules […]
Identifying severe cases of covid-19 in the community
The covid-19 crisis has placed extraordinary pressures on the health service. Public health measures have been implemented to reduce community spread and ease pressures on the NHS and these have […]
Lessons learned from 10 years working on (an) ISLAND
The Interventions Supporting Long-term Adherence aNd Decreasing cardiovascular events (ISLAND) trial was a three-arm, single-blinded pragmatic randomized trial of theory-informed interventions that sought to improve adherence to evidence-based medications and […]
Covid-19 in children: develop solutions rather than look for problems
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is a global emergency that has significantly altered healthcare systems and created understandable concern for those who deliver these services to children. At the same time the […]