The term international medical graduate or IMG, here in the United States (US), applies to those who are applying for a higher medical training in the US but did not […]
Columnists
Richard Smith: A flare up of burnout
The German speaking world is having a flare up of burnout. The media are full of stories on burnout, and 150 000 school pupils in Austria are said to be […]
Richard Smith: contemplating my deathbed
Through Twitter from my friend Martin I have received a list of the five things that people most commonly regret when dying. This is enormously useful information, much more so […]
Sandra Lako on the nurses’ workshop in Freetown.
Recently the Welbodi Partnership was privileged to have a paediatric nurse from the United Kingdom volunteering at the children’s hospital for two months. The volunteer nurse spent the first month […]
Douglas Noble on healthcare public health
The recent move to transfer the balance of commissioning power within the NHS to GPs, although laudable, raises a number of serious questions. Perhaps they are best summed up by […]
Martin McShane: Is there such a thing as evidence based management?
I grew up as a clinician during an era when evidence-based medicine, as a concept, penetrated the consciousness of the professions. Nowadays, one of my favourite meetings, which I chair, […]
Richard Smith: Intercepted correspondence
I must start this blog with a competing interest. I’m the chair of Patients Know Best, a start up that aims to use information technology to enhance the relationship between […]
Liz Wager on falling in love with email again
There are days when I curse the existence of email. I curse it when I have been training all day yet feel obliged to sit up half the night to […]
Tracey Koehlmoos: The rationale against ORS fortified with zinc
The SUZY Project aims to introduce dispersible zinc tablets as a treatment for diarrhoea in young children in Bangladesh. Due to my role in the project, I frequently receive questions […]
Martin McShane on boundaries
“How much does the PCT spend on healthcare for people over the age of 65?” the telephone caller enquired. An impossible question to answer accurately, but after a moment’s reflection […]