The medical community should use this moment to promote international scientific conferences that are more environmentally friendly, say Etienne Delacrétaz, Romaine Delacrétaz, and Nicholas Rowe […]
Month: August 2020
Building back better research post covid-19
During the covid-19 pandemic, the public focus has been on the remarkable performance of the NHS and its dedicated workforce in coping with the huge influx of covid-19 patients, led […]
Melanie Etti: The A levels fiasco is part of a wider picture of inequality in medical school recruitment
This year’s A levels debacle is fresh proof that more needs to be done to widen access to medicine, says Melanie Etti […]
Will Stahl Timmins: A network diagram for our times
One of the most important projects I have worked on this year is the living network meta-analysis of covid-19 treatments, the first version of which was published on bmj.com in […]
Sam Allen: The women working in health and care look after us, it’s time we looked after them
There is an often trotted out statistic that women make up more than three-quarters of the NHS workforce. It’s one of those facts that is used so often that it’s […]
Patient centred care in a post-covid world
Like our sickest covid-19 patients, the NHS has been on life support since March. Many routine and necessary health services were put on hold. Retired nurses and doctors returned to the […]
Emma Doble: The long-term effects of covid-19 for new parents
Many health services were paused due to covid-19. Emma Doble describes the impact that this has had on new parents […]
Richard Smith: Relearning how to die
Kevin Toolis, author of the beautiful My Father’s Wake, would agree with the surgeon Atul Gawande that we have forgotten how to die. Toolis’s core argument is that his forebears […]
Mary Black: Covid-19 heroes—putting faces to the numbers
I count things for a living—trend lines go up, go down, and I check that the story of those lines makes sense. I look for patterns: what are we missing […]
Deferral of surgery for rectal cancer: the patients’ perspective on the recent NICE recommendations
Earlier this year the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published new guidelines on the management of colorectal cancer which aims to improve quality of life and survival. [1] […]