The Grand Convergence is the Big Idea of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health. It is the idea that by 2035 the poor world could have similar mortality to […]
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Tiago Villanueva: What have I learnt from dealing with an in-flight medical emergency?
Recently I was confronted with a medical emergency on board a short haul to Europe. The problem was a case of syncope, which is the most common in-flight medical emergency. […]
Richard Smith: Why do doctors make great tyrants?
Simon Sebag Montefiore, the son of a doctor, recently argued that doctors make highly effective tyrants. Is he right and if he is why might it be? His article was […]
William Cayley: Doing more with less in healthcare
The newer the better—or so it seems in much of commercialized medicine. At least in “developed” or “higher income” countries, medical innovation seems inextricably tied with commercial endeavors, which often […]
Jim Murray: Will governments support transparency for clinical trials?
Criticism of EU law is often aimed at an amorphous “Brussels,” but in many cases member states are the problem—as with the proposal to revise the Clinical Trials Directive. The […]
Tiago Villanueva: Is active travel good for health?
If you thought Australia was the envy of the rest of the world in terms of having the most physically active people, think again. Peter McCue, executive officer for the […]
Billy Boland: The answer to leadership is greater than 7.3
Multi-source feedback and I didn’t get off to a great start when I found out that, when it came to being a doctor, my colleagues rated me as 7.3. I […]
Kieran Walsh: Do you believe in interprofessional education?
Do you believe in interprofessional education? Do you believe in problem based learning? Do you believe in objective structured clinical examinations? Do you believe in reflection in action? Or reflection […]
Jim Murray: The EU, transparency, and access to clinical trial results
How is the EU involved in transparency and access to clinical trial results? Many readers will know this already, but perhaps not all. For obvious reasons, health professionals have tended […]
Richard Smith: Does it take an earthquake to reform healthcare?
Integrating the fractured and fractious components of health and social care systems seems to be everybody’s current favoured “solution” for healthcare problems, but it’s hard to make happen. We now […]