Triage in a pandemic is even thornier than you might think, say Christina Pagel and colleagues […]
Year: 2020
Richard Smith: My worry about my mother is not her dying of covid-19, but her dying on a trolley in an emergency department
My 90-year-old mother is demented in the most benign way: she says sweet words to all the people she meets and lives in a world of trees, sunlight, and cups […]
Twenty five years after the Beijing Declaration we need to reaffirm that women’s rights are human rights
“If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all.” […]
Be proud to be individual—a message for International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day. We have come a long way since the days of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson or Emmeline Pankhurst, striving for the rights of women to be educated […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—6 March 2020
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Personalised care: what matters to you?
A 90 year old woman near the end of her life is hoisted from a hospital bed, semi-conscious, for staff to take a photo of the pressure sore on her […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Prediction
Whoever said that prediction is very difficult, especially of the future, somehow gave it the ring of truth. But, like so many sayings of this sort, it has been attributed […]
Siddhartha Mehta: Healthcare workers should call for a health centred budget
Government budgets should reflect the health of countries, communities, and the planet, says Siddhartha Mehta […]
Richard Smith: The case for workshops on publication and research ethics (and an invitation)
“Imagine that you write a scientific paper on the influence of various factors on drug compliance. You are not writing about a specific drug, but a student who is working […]
Celebrating 100 women in healthcare leadership
In time for International Women’s day, Carina Dowson, Johann Malawana, Melody Redman, and Hazel Awarah celebrate the great work being done by women in healthcare […]