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Month: May 2021

Richard Smith: A eulogy for trees and humanity

May 28, 2021

“Words strikes him as a ruse. His maize and beans and squash—all growing things alone disclose the wordless mind of God.” This doesn’t seem like a good place for a […]

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Leave no one behind: prioritising inclusion health groups for covid-19 vaccination

May 28, 2021

The covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated long standing health inequalities experienced by socially excluded groups and without an inclusive approach to covid-19 vaccination these inequalities could be widened further by the […]

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Conflicts of interest in the post Lansley NHS—from a regulated to an unregulated healthcare market?

May 28, 2021

The common perception of the UK government’s recent proposals on reforming the NHS announced in the recent Queen’s Speech is that it represents the moment when the government finally turned its back […]

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Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Pharmacological black swans 1970–2020

May 28, 2021

In his book The Black Swan (Random House, 2007), Nassim Taleb wrote “history does not crawl, it jumps”. Many important discoveries, he asserted, do not come about by careful planning; […]

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The government’s poor handling of the covid-19 pandemic shows it is time to declare our limitations as well as interests 

May 28, 2021

Admission of our limitations is crucial to good decision making, it is time we openly acknowledge these, says Amitava Banerjee In healthcare and health research, we spend a lot of […]

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Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—28 May 2021

May 28, 2021

Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]

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From music to medicine: Learning from our hobbies and each other

May 28, 2021

Covid-19 knocked communal hobbies on their head. My weekly community wind band rehearsals were banned and concerts cancelled. But learning from our hobbies can inform our clinical work. If you […]

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The UK’s response to new variants: a story of obfuscation and chaos

May 28, 2021

The UK government’s response to the B.1.617.2 variant is, once again, characterised by complacency, dither, and delay […]

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Winterbourne 10 years on: how much has changed?

May 28, 2021

Many people with intellectual disability and/or autism still remain warehoused in inpatient units that they do not need to be in while their lives tick past, says Keri-Michèle Lodge […]

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How the NHS can help tackle the mental health crisis posed by the climate and ecological emergency

May 27, 2021

The devastating effects of the climate emergency are increasingly apparent for all to see. Rising temperatures, bush fires, floods, droughts, dying ecosystems and degrading soil demonstrate each day the extent […]

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