HIV spread rapidly among people who injected drugs in New York, USA, in the late 1970s and early 1980s; a period long before the authorities had understood and were responding […]
Year: 2020
Andy Cowper: How not to unpick a lockdown
Readers of The BMJ may be familiar with the Dunning-Kruger Effect. It’s almost an Inverse Competence Law, which proposes a cognitive bias in which people who are not good at […]
Emma Green: The impact of covid-19 is hitting emergency departments in many ways
Since the covid-19 pandemic started, I have been working additional shifts in the emergency department alongside my role at the Medical Protection Society. I am however starting to see a decrease […]
Staying apart, together—optimising wellbeing in older people in the time of covid-19
The World Health Organisation states that in many countries, older people are facing the most threats and challenges from covid-19. Although all age groups are at risk of contracting covid-19, […]
What can pandemics teach us about mental health act admissions?
The SARS-Cov-2 pandemic has produced challenges for mental health services, but it also provides opportunities to reassess and improve our mental health care system. When National Health Service England (NHSE) […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—15 May 2020
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals. […]
Covid-19 has left Chinese medical students in an uncertain position
Like all students, medical students in China were sent home by universities because of the covid-19 outbreak, but there has been intense debate over whether they should join healthcare staff […]
Protecting “covid-protected” cancer hubs
Many patients still face risks from nosocomial transmissions from asymptomatic healthcare workers and patients […]
Managing a covid-19 rehabilitation surge
The covid-19 pandemic has turned the way we run hospitals upside down, facilitating the expansion of intensive care and revolutionising the way we manage acutely ill patients. The use of […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . testing hypotheses in testing times
All hypotheses are unequal; some are more unequal than others. I have previously discussed the Indo-European root DHE. The basic root, the so-called e-grade form, DHE, means to set or […]