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Richard Smith

Richard Smith was the editor of The BMJ until 2004.

Richard Smith: A flare up of burnout

August 23, 2010

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 […]

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Richard Smith: contemplating my deathbed

August 19, 2010

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 […]

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Richard Smith: Intercepted correspondence

August 12, 2010

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 […]

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Richard Smith: Enter the “liquid journal”

August 5, 2010

It may be what epidemiologists call “ascertainment bias” (seeing what you want to see), but I detect the beginning of the end of prepublication peer review. The latest death knell […]

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Richard Smith on improving what the world eats

July 22, 2010

High blood pressure is the second main cause of disease burden in Australia and is only marginally behind tobacco, said Bruce Neal, senior director, research and development at the George […]

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Richard Smith: Can you ask a patient anything?

July 20, 2010

Can a doctor ask a patient anything? In the Netherlands the answer seems to be “yes.” Doctors tend not to think so, but at a meeting between doctors and patients […]

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Richard Smith on doctors’ tricky decisions

July 16, 2010

One of the pleasures of being a doctor, albeit one who doesn’t see patients, is that you get to chat to other doctors, real ones, about the tricky decisions they […]

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Richard Smith: Rediscovering public health through global health

July 9, 2010

These days I spend lots of time in low and middle income countries, and as I think more about their health problems and less about the endless reorganisations of the […]

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Richard Smith: Are you brave enough to feed back?

July 6, 2010

Are you brave enough to feed back when you see poor behaviour? I wish I was—because feedback can lead to improvement, whereas silence allows the poor behaviour to continue. I’ve […]

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Richard Smith: Can the NHS get digital?

July 2, 2010

Why has the NHS been so much slower to use information technology than other sectors and what might be done to encourage it to speed up? These were questions addressed […]

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