One of the things I like most about being a scientific researcher is the surprise that comes with unexpected findings. Our study on industry payments to influential medical leaders published […]
Month: May 2020
Chris Ham: Test and trace strategy must value local leadership to be a success
The government has unveiled a covid-19 test and trace strategy for England, but it wasted valuable time in recognising what needed to be done after the lockdown was imposed and […]
Guillermo D Pineda: Why the US needs immigrants in medicine more than ever
The covid-19 pandemic has underscored the contributions of immigrant physicians to US healthcare, says Guillermo D Pineda […]
James Hesford: The covid-19 pandemic is a real world lesson in leadership for junior doctors
Throughout the course of this pandemic, junior doctors have been able to witness good leadership principles in practice, says James Hesford […]
Alex Armitage: We need a #HealthyRecovery from covid-19
13 million health professionals from 90 countries have written this week to the leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies, calling for an economic recovery from covid-19 that prioritises human […]
A parallel pandemic: the crush of covid-19 publications tests the capacity of scientific publishing
The massive consequences of the covid-19 pandemic are apparent in many regions with overburdened healthcare systems, including substantial increases in all-cause mortality, psychosocial, and economic consequences. [1] In the same way […]
Elaine Maxwell and Alison Leary: In praise of professional judgment
Elaine Maxwell and Alison Leary explore the pitfalls of an increasingly competency based approach to healthcare, where there is less and less value attached to professional expertise […]
Richard Smith: Healthcare not only fails to respond to suffering but often makes it worse
“The test of a system of medicine should be its adequacy in the face of suffering,” writes the physician Eric J Cassell in his book The Nature of Suffering and […]
Martin McKee: Trust is essential in a pandemic, but the British prime minister is squandering it
Once squandered, trust is extremely difficult to recover […]
Beneficence and equity: how the covid-19 pandemic exposed our weaknesses in Italy
For years we have been teaching our students how proud they should be to become doctors in our country—Italy—where equity is a constitutive value, and where health is guaranteed by […]