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Richard Smith: Communicating about climate change—think audience and messenger

April 20, 2021

Climate Outreach, leaders in communicating about climate change, do not aim to proselytise, sell, or persuade, but rather fulfil people’s “right to know.” Just as people have a right to […]

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Peter Brindley: Covid’s third wave—another wake-up call for a complacent world?

April 20, 2021

It’s generally fine to be ignored if everything is going to plan. My nation, Canada, and my profession, intensive care medicine, is usually happy with this arrangement. The current worldwide […]

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Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . New, and not so new, medical words

April 16, 2021

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is updated every three months (“on a quarterly basis” as they put it—they mean “quarterly”). The latest list of updates and additions, published in March […]

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Richard Smith: The vision of an electronically connected NHS comes closer

April 13, 2021

In April 2002, the National Programme for IT (which in 2005 became Connecting for Health) set out with the ambitious vision of creating a paperless NHS. The programme was expected […]

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Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Medical words of the 1980s

April 9, 2021

Since the start of the year I have been exploring biomedical words that are labelled in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as having first appeared in print in the 1980s. […]

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Chris Ham: can the success of the NHS vaccination rollout be applied in other areas of healthcare?

April 7, 2021

The success of the NHS covid-19 vaccination programme shows the benefits of national leadership and local delivery in healthcare. Working at speed and scale, the programme put in place a […]

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Richard Smith: Time for a radical pivot in the welfare state, including the NHS

April 6, 2021

Every so often we encounter a book, or even an article, that says something important and changes our thinking. Often they are books that express clearly something that we have […]

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Solving global vaccine inequity requires new incentives for pharmaceutical companies

April 2, 2021

Abraar Karan and Thomas Pogge look at how we could subsidize the healthcare needs of the world’s poorest people into effective market demand […]

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Medicine under fire in Myanmar—now is the time for solidarity

March 30, 2021

On the first of February this year, Myanmar’s slow creep towards democracy came to a halt. The brittle scaffold of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s government was brushed aside. Refusing […]

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Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Self-experimentation

March 29, 2021

Self-experimentation, or autoexperimentation, is as old as experiments themselves. I have previously mentioned the case of Daniel Alcides Carrión, a medical student, who in 1885 had himself inoculated with an […]

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