It is easy for us to take for granted that everyone understands that clean water and decent sanitation should be indispensable elements of our everyday lives, but this wasn’t always […]
Month: January 2020
Raanan Gillon: Fairness and justice in medical practice and policy
The BMA is offering a £4000 prize for the BMA Presidential essay competition. Raanan Gillon explains the rationale behind the prize […]
Rohan Khera: Evaluating the impact of incentives to reduce readmission rates in the US
Assessing the effects of health policy interventions on patient care and outcomes is essential for improving their design and implementation. The ideal health policy is implemented in a manner that […]
Health professionals must call out the detrimental impact on health of India’s new citizenship laws
Citizenship—the status of belonging to a nation state—provides people with the right to have rights. Citizenship is closely associated with health and wellbeing, as it provides people with access to […]
Ilona Kickbusch: The dark side of digital health
Fascinated as we are by digital gadgets and promises, we do not look deeply enough at the radical impact of the digital transformation on our health and life. Increasingly social […]
Bureaucracy is hampering the success of clinical research
Independent academic clinical research is indispensable for optimising standards of care, speeding up treatment access, and ensuring the most efficient use of limited healthcare resources. However, for decades now, initiating […]
Abraar Karan: How do we deal with “old guard” bigotry in healthcare?
The way we respond to the so called “old guard” as social and cultural norms begin to outpace their ways of thinking is an important and complex topic, says Abraar […]
Karen E Lasser: A doctor’s protest in the era of twitter
Karen Lasser reflects on what she learnt from a protest to Melania Trump’s visit to Boston Medical Center […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Lexicographic anniversaries in 2020
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) not only defines words. It gives variant spellings, etymologies, and instances of their uses in quotations from printed texts. And it does so, as the […]
Ian Hamilton: Focusing on GHB ignores the more common involvement of alcohol in sexual assault
Recent high profile sexual attacks have drawn attention to the drug GHB, yet Ian Hamilton underlines how much more commonly alcohol is weaponised in cases of sexual assault […]