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Peter Brindley: Covid’s third wave—another wake-up call for a complacent world?
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 […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . New, and not so new, medical words
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 […]
Richard Smith: The vision of an electronically connected NHS comes closer
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 […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Medical words of the 1980s
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. […]
Chris Ham: can the success of the NHS vaccination rollout be applied in other areas of healthcare?
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 […]
Richard Smith: Time for a radical pivot in the welfare state, including the NHS
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 […]
Solving global vaccine inequity requires new incentives for pharmaceutical companies
Abraar Karan and Thomas Pogge look at how we could subsidize the healthcare needs of the world’s poorest people into effective market demand […]
Medicine under fire in Myanmar—now is the time for solidarity
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 […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Self-experimentation
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 […]