One of the saddest things I’ve seen is patients who have been let down by a lack of service integration, who have had to tell their story multiple times and […]
Month: May 2021
Martin McKee: What went wrong in the UK’s covid-19 response?
One day we may know, but Boris Johnson is in no hurry, writes Martin McKee In May 2020, Sarah Wollaston, Mike Gill, and I called for a rapid inquiry into […]
It takes the whole health system to improve quality of care for mothers and newborns
A new WHO report on improving quality of care for maternal, newborn, and child health argues that it takes time to bring about changes in quality of care In 2017, […]
Covid-19: What should we do about B.1.617.2? A classic case of decision making under uncertainty
The new variant of concern has fundamentally changed the risk we face and therefore the government’s criteria for moving ahead with the road map have not been met, argue Stephen […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—14 May 2021
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . -omics
This week, as last week, in my pursuit of new biomedical words that have appeared in the last 50 years, I am investigating words first listed in the Oxford English […]
“So, why medicine? Why do you want to be a doctor?”
“Why do you want to be a doctor?” It’s a question that many medical applicants are urged to have an answer for as they prepare to be interviewed for entry […]
Giles Maskell: The curse of the priors
I used to joke that radiology is getting easier because as we carry out more and more imaging, soon everyone will have a previous scan with which to compare. The […]
Why we need to improve rates of early diagnosis in never-smoking lung cancer—a patient-led initiative
Razia was thirty-five years old when she was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. She is the mother of three young daughters and was healthy and active. She had never […]
Richard Smith: Eight-year-olds protest about climate change and the destruction of nature
Thomas Gomersall and four friends, all eight-years-old, recently organised a march to Islington Town Hall to call for action on the climate crisis. Later they organised a cake sale to […]