On 3rd March 2020, the UK government published guidance on its coronavirus (covid-19) action plan. As the number of cases reported in the UK continues to rise, identifying strategies for […]
Month: March 2020
Tom Jefferson: Covidair flight 19 from Rome to Oxford and back again
Antonio (not his real name) sits in the departure hall in Rome Fiumicino airport. He is one of those guys who wrap your luggage up in plastic. He initially complains […]
Covid-19: How to triage effectively in a pandemic
Triage in a pandemic is even thornier than you might think, say Christina Pagel and colleagues […]
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 […]