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Columnists
Nick Hopkinson: “When you are young they assume you know nothing…”
I can clearly remember forming the thought, on my first clinical attachment as a medical student, that I’d never know enough to be a medical registrar. These awesome figures, holding […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . The OED in The BMJ
Last week I analysed citations in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) taken from The BMJ. This week I have looked at what The BMJ said about the OED when it […]
The opioid crisis, the Sacklers, and the role played by doctors
Richard Smith reviews Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty and concludes that the US opioid epidemic could not have happened without doctors and the whole medical […]
What Dominic Cummings said next—the case for an urgent inquiry into England’s pandemic response gets stronger and stronger
What can we learn from Cummings’ recent interview, apart from what has long been obvious that the machinery of government is broken? […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . The BMJ in the OED
Last week I analysed citations in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) taken from the Oxford Textbook of Medicine (OTM). This week I have looked at OED citations taken from The […]
Daniel Sokol: Is the NHS really under “unprecedented” pressure?
On 9 July 2021, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges—the coordinating body for the UK and Ireland’s medical Royal Colleges and Faculties—issued a statement. It called for a “responsible approach […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . The OTM in the OED
Last week I pointed out that some errors in citations from the Oxford Textbook of Medicine (OTM) had been corrected in the latest set of additions to the OED. This […]
Chris Ham: The pandemic has shown that we need to recognise and value our shared responsibility for health
Covid-19 has reminded us that preventing illness is everyone’s responsibility. Staff working in the health and care system have made a vital contribution, but so too have the people and […]
Trish Greenhalgh: Freedom Day, but at what cost?
It looks like the UK is once again setting up a colossal natural experiment which will put wave three of the pandemic into a super-exponential growth phase, says Trish Greenhalgh […]