How would you like to be part of a television programme provisionally entitled “The town that gave up medicine”? The programme will be made by a company called Films of […]
Richard Smith
Richard Smith was the editor of The BMJ until 2004.
Richard Smith: Will the Big Society help with NHS efficiency savings?
Will the Big Society, GP commissioning, and a major reorganisation help or hinder the NHS in making 4% efficiency savings compound over four years? This was the question that kept […]
Richard Smith: Recessions are good for health
Between 1991 and 1993 the Finnish economy suffered a deep recession and health and social services were cut by 25%. The result was a fall in mortality. Sweden had the same […]
Richard Smith: The moment is coming for chronic disease
After years in obscurity, those of us concerned about chronic disease are about to have our moment in the spotlight—at the United Nations High Level Meeting in New York next […]
Richard Smith: We need more Tweeters
Far too few people Tweet. I’ve just been teaching a class on getting published in Buenos Aires, and only one of 60 researchers Tweeted. “Writing and publishing the paper,” I […]
Richard Smith: A week in a schloss
As I arrived in Salzburg at Schloss Leopoldskron, globally prominent because of is role in the “Sound of Music,” I wondered if it would be possible for people from 29 […]
Richard Smith: How to turn around a failing hospital
England is said to have 30 hospitals that are failing so badly that they may be taken over by the private sector. So there might be a lot of interest […]
Richard Smith: Now happiness is declared a disease
The number of diseases seems to be increasing dramatically with the arrival of conditions like social phobia, attention deficit disorder, chronic procrastination syndrome, and female sexual arousal disorder. Now this […]
Richard Smith: informed and uniformed consent
Informed consent has degenerated from an important and respectful act to a cumbersome, meaningless regulatory process that impedes research. That bluntly is the opinion of many researchers, and so a […]
Richard Smith on editors’ conflicts of interest
We are all more interested in the conflicts of interests of others than we are in our own, and editors are no exception. Having preached to authors and reviewers on […]