To Athens for the 25th International Congress of Pediatrics. Very hot indeed – over 40 degrees. Smoke from the fires raging on the hills of the Peloponnese was clearly visible […]
Editors at large
Domhnall MacAuley from the Quality Forum
Domhnall MacAuley attending the BMJ/IHI 12th International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care, Barcelona April 2007 Airports at 5am on a working day don’t have the same excitement […]
Tony Delamothe on redesign of bmj.com (1)
“If history has taught us anything, it’s that Internet business models are like buses: If you miss one, all you have to do is wait a little while another one […]
Tony Delamothe on redesign of bmj.com (2)
Let’s start at the very beginning bmj.com will have a new “look and feel” come January 2007, provided by New York interactive agency, Digital Pulp. After that comes a range […]
Israel’s incursion into south Lebanon (2006) – view from Haifa/Safed
As Lisa Rubin, physician and public health officer in Haifa, northern Israel, who has been blogging for bmj.com since 7 August, leaves Haifa for a planned holiday, she starts to […]
Israel’s incursion into south Lebanon (2006) – view from Beirut
Imad Uthman is an associate professor and rheumatologist at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon Friday, 1 September Field hospitals in the wrong fields Soon after the clashes […]
Tony Delamothe: TED 2006 – The future we will create
Monterey, California Down on Fisherman’s Wharf, it’s ‘Prime time for the Gray Whale,’ according to the boat trip operators. Just offshore, colonies of sea lions are barking out their territorial […]
Jane Smith: The 11th European Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care
This is my visit to Prague and the first quality form I’ve attended since the first prototype in London, well over 10 years ago. It’s much bigger ‘ over 1000 […]
Jenny Kowalczuk: 11th European Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare
Quality and safety – inseparable partners on the improvement journey Quality and safety are intimately linked, hand in glove. You can’t really say you’re delivering quality healthcare without also addressing the […]
Doug Kamerow on the World Health Care Congress, 2006
Washington, DC, 17 April 2006 Don’t know what to expect from this self-aggrandizingly named meeting. I’m familiar with medical association meetings, where politics and policy predominate, as well as research […]