Medical students who work with cadavers should give themselves the space to process this experience fully, not tarnish it by trying to pretend it is mundane, writes Anisha Page […]
Month: September 2020
We must take a One Health approach to improve human pandemic infection control
The covid-19 pandemic must serve as a wake-up call It is now clear that global and national preparedness and response to the covid-19 pandemic has been inadequate. Many of the […]
Pooled testing for SARS-CoV-2 could provide the solution to UK’s testing strategy
Challenges faced by the testing system in the UK show that a new way of thinking is required, argue Alan McNally and Jonathan Ball […]
Vaccines for covid-19: reasons for hope, but first for concern
Covid-19 has spread around the world causing fear and global economic disruption. The rate of transmission has not been reduced effectively and natural herd immunity is currently far from a […]
Peter Brindley: Medical administration during covid-19—not all fun and games
When my children were younger—and believed they had “rocked my world”—they offered two showstoppers. The first was an imaginary microphone drop. This communicated that the issue was dealt with; nothing […]
“Out of sight but not out of mind”: perspectives from non-patient facing doctors during the covid-19 pandemic
The covid-19 pandemic has presented immense challenges to the National Health Service, but also to the NHS workforce. With up to one third of staff off with covid-19 or self-isolating […]
Expanding the NHS community workforce: what will this mean for the future of district nursing?
During the covid-19 pandemic, coverage has been largely silent on the issue of those working behind the closed doors of a patient’s home. For example, district nurses operating in a […]
Raj Bhopal: Blaming, petrifying, and punishing the population are not viable, long term public health strategies
We must cultivate trust, argues Raj Bhopal […]
Joanna Verran: The Bad Bugs Book Club—a study in infectious disease . . . and humanity
Microbiologist Joanna Verran set up a book club to encourage discussion about infectious disease using fiction, never anticipating the impact that it would have on her own learning […]
Raina MacIntyre: Cloth masks should be washed appropriately everyday
In 2011, we carried out a randomised controlled clinical trial of cloth masks in Vietnam, because in the course of doing face mask research, we had noticed that cloth masks […]