Aneez Esmail and Sam Everington explain why they are taking their college to court for ignoring its members […]
Month: October 2020
Nikki Nabavi: Medical student syndrome
As you sit in a lecture, listening to the symptoms of a rare medical condition, have you ever convinced yourself that you have it? You might have medical student syndrome […]
Covid-19: Why we must redraw the UK’s map of inequality
Both the immediate response to and the recovery from the pandemic need to focus on those who have been hit hardest, say Tim Elwell-Sutton and Mehrunisha Suleman […]
Chris Ham: A cross party approach to managing the pandemic would help restore public confidence and rebuild trust
Restoring the collective action that existed at the start of the pandemic is an urgent priority, argues Chris Ham […]
Nick Scriven: Hospital winter planning must include regular covid-19 testing of all frontline staff
The ongoing and re-escalating covid-19 pandemic has affected all areas of medical practice, but the work during the last seven months by the Acute Medicine Units (AMUs) and their staff […]
Amitava Banerjee: Communicating risk in the time of corona
I entered the national lockdown in March six days early, when the UK had 1950 cases and 81 deaths from coronavirus. My lockdown was driven partly by concerns that we […]
Counting long covid in children
With the recent announcement that the NHS will provide services for patients with long covid, there was a palpable sense of triumph among the community of long haulers. We both […]
Ian Hamilton: Drug related deaths are not spread equally in our communities
The latest data show clearly how the route into and out of problems with drugs is heavily influenced by social circumstances, writes Ian Hamilton […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Medicalization
Last week, I reviewed biomedical words whose first written instances are attributed to 1970 in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). This week I have explored 1971 (Table 1). Pharmacology again […]
As genomic testing increases, it is time to focus on post test care for patients
It is time for genetics services to rethink where they are focusing their resources, argue two genetic counsellors with experience of working in NHS specialist genetic services, research, and policy […]