General Practitioners at a practice in Bristol went to work this week to find offensive graffiti on the wall of their surgery, in foot-high letters. The message from the graffiti […]
Month: October 2020
Rapid recruitment and deployment of a team of “Helpers” to manage the covid-19 pandemic
The initial phase of the covid-19 pandemic placed a huge burden on hospitals, which had insufficient time to prepare for the influx of severely ill patients. As cases rise again, […]
Can covid-19 help us deal with the pandemic of defensive medicine?
The threat of this terrible virus has made us take a step back and critically reflect on our priorities and our actions […]
Daniel Sokol on William Osler’s legacy and medical ethics
This is a version of a lecture given to the Osler Club of London and the British Society for the History of Medicine on 1st October 2020 as part of […]
Elective procedures and covid-19: What do patients want to know?
In response to the covid-19 pandemic planned outpatient appointments, diagnostics, treatments, and surgical procedures were deferred or cancelled for millions of patients.1 This was done to free up capacity to […]
The evolutionary phases of a junior academic faculty physician
Recently, as we were preparing for our daughter’s first day of school, we came across the philosophy of the educator, Ellen Moir,1 who has identified distinct phases of a first-year […]
Doctors and patients: two nations divided by a common language
There is an oft repeated misconception that anaesthetists choose their specialty because they can’t communicate with conscious patients. This is demonstrably untrue. Take the average anaesthetic assessment on the morning […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—29 October 2020
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
It is not too late for local authorities to start leading contact tracing
Local authorities can fully engage with local communities to combat covid-19 New and better ways to manage covid-19 must be adopted in the UK as soon as possible, and may […]
Max Davie: Food poverty is not just a problem of the pandemic—the UK is falling behind on child health
What does the UK prime minister want for Christmas? He certainly hopes not to see children going hungry. “We will do everything in our power to make sure that no […]