In the last week, I have managed to catch up with two old friends who are the sort of GPs who I would be delighted to look after me or […]
Columnists
Tracey Koehlmoos: Put that french fry down!
Last week, a concerned community member was investigating the type of oil used for frying at the American Club in Jakarta. It turns out that the club had been using […]
Edzard Ernst: Thousands of patients cannot be wrong or can they?
The subject of alternative medicine (AM) is littered with surveys, and it almost seems as though a new one crops up every other day. Typically these surveys assess how many […]
Richard Smith: Why I won’t be retiring to the seaside
Taxi drivers rank alongside hairdressers as sources of deep information about communities, and the one who drove me on Sunday morning from Padstow on the Cornish Coast to Bodmin Parkway […]
Richard Smith: Will economic problems finally fix London healthcare?
There were no dissenters from the view at last week’s Cambridge Health Network meeting that London has chronic overcapacity in its acute hospitals. It’s been the case for decades. One […]
David Kerr: Medical underwear
Could the e-bra save the NHS? Recently researchers at the University of Arkansas announced that they had developed a remote monitoring system that could be integrated with an individual’s underwear. […]
Richard Smith: Teaching is stand-up comedy
Teaching, it seems to me, is much the same as stand-up comedy. One is much scarier than the other, but which is the scariest depends on who you are. I […]
Richard Smith: Can Devi Shetty make healthcare affordable across the globe?
It’s impossible not to be impressed by Devi Shetty, heart surgeon and the “the Henry Ford of healthcare.” We can be impressed by his surgical skill and his refusal to […]
Martin McShane: Ch-Ch-Changes
Ch,ch,changes. The next couple of months are going to see a sea change in the management of commissioning across England. The appointments to the NHS Commissioning Board (NHSCB) sectors are being […]
Tiago Villanueva: Cutting edge primary care in Denmark
As a locum GP, I tend to have limited contact with the permanent staff of the practices I work in, and I therefore rely almost entirely on myself to look […]