Our economy, said John Maynard Keynes in 1933, “is not a success. It is not intelligent, it is not beautiful, it is not just, it is not virtuous—and it doesn’t […]
Month: June 2020
Covid-19: Indian healthcare workers need adequate PPE
The Indian government has taken many proactive steps to halt the rapid spread of the covid-19 pandemic in India. Measures include implementing a complete lockdown of all activities in the […]
Test and trace: it didn’t have to be this way
A doctor describes her experience of working in the test and trace service On the afternoon of 27 May 2020, the UK prime minister Boris Johnson told the House of […]
Matt Morgan: Changing global medical practice through a press release has put EBM into ICU
Releasing the results of the Recovery trial quickly, may have saved lives. But without the data available yet, the results cannot be scrutinised. Matt Morgan considers this complex decision […]
Chris Ham: A “world beating” test and trace service is far from the current reality
Instead of over promising and under delivering, ministers must be open to learning from elsewhere […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Withdrawn
Correction added 24 June 2020: The original hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin preprint paper mentioned in this article can still be viewed at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.05.20088757v1?versioned=true Some articles get retracted. Some get withdrawn. […]
Kiran Mitha: Covid-19 is testing the limits of the fragile healthcare system in Peru’s Amazon region
In the remote Peruvian state of Loreto, physicians are a rare human resource and are risking their lives to care for patients with covid-19. How many more doctors must die […]
What we all should know about PPE for healthcare workers
One of the key issues for healthcare systems around the world during the covid-19 pandemic has been the lack of sufficient personal protective equipment (PPE) available for healthcare workers. We […]
Reduction of polypharmacy by electronic decision support—less is more
Older patients with polypharmacy have become the norm rather than the exception in general practice. Treating these patients is very complex and often many specialties are involved. Keeping an overview […]
Cian Wade: Silver linings of the covid-19 pandemic for junior doctors
We have faced numerous losses during this pandemic, but there have been some silver linings, says Cian Wade […]