Last week I suggested that there is widespread misunderstanding about the meaning of “exponential” in mathematics. Colloquially, it means a huge increase, which it need not be. And when events […]
Month: April 2020
#HowYouDoing? Promoting and protecting wellbeing during an unprecedented crisis
We are currently facing the greatest challenge in the recent history of the NHS. None of us has lived through a global pandemic such as covid-19: it is hard to […]
The human cost of sanctions—covid-19 and beyond
Parsa Erfani and Laila Fozouni When we spoke with Maryam*, she recalled first noticing the lump in her neck in the summer of 2018. Sanctions on Iran had sharply increased, […]
Tara Lamont: Learning from social sciences at a time of crisis
I remember being at an academic gathering of healthcare social scientists a few years back. A lot of withering talk of the dominant paradigm of biomedical research and the limitations […]
William Cayley: The new normal
It is beginning to sink in that this societal upheaval is not just a temporary “time out,” writes William Cayley […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—24 April 2020
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals. […]
Covid-19: Government guidance on emergency rationing of critical care is needed to support professional decision making
Covid-19 is causing countless ethical and legal challenges in medicine. A particularly vexed subject is the vacuum created by concerns about fair rationing decisions for escalation to intensive care. This […]
Wuhan lockdown after covid-19 outbreak: a doctor’s perspective
Dehao Fu, Yu He, and Yuanyuan Guo report back from Wuhan, China, on how the city is dealing with covid-19 and how best to navigate a lockdown. […]
Charlotte Squires: The shielded doctor
I am a medical registrar and therefore should be an asset to the current covid-19 pandemic; unlike trainees being redeployed from other specialties, acute medicine is where I have trained, […]
Who counts when we count cases and deaths from covid-19?
Carmel Hughes, Michael Tunney and Kate Lapane look at why covid-19 deaths in care homes are not being counted, and what needs to be done to protect those most at risk […]