In 2009, Obama convened senior politicians in the Oval Office to discuss one magazine article: why were there Medicare costs of $15,000 per person per year in the Texan town […]
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Domhnall MacAuley: International Quality Forum, day 3
When it all goes wrong, that’s when you are really tested. Quantas pilot Captain David Evans described what happened when an engine disintegrated in mid air on Flight QF32 and […]
Luisa Dillner: Identity and humanity at TEDMED, day 3
It’s at the end of a long TEDMED day that Andrew Solomon comes onto the stage. He looks a bit shiny, with a smart blue suit (did no one tell […]
Domhnall MacAuley: International Quality Forum, day 2
“Stroke care was woeful,” said Dame Ruth Carnall, former chief executive of NHS London, in her sobering account of efforts to change the system. Less than 1% of patients had […]
Luisa Dillner: TEDMED, day 2
The best thing about TEDMED is its delegates. Firstly they genuinely want to talk to you. Secondly they are all really interesting. Everyone has either worked for NASA or is […]
Readers’ editor: Video abstracts
Cuba’s population witnessed huge economic change after losing the former Soviet Union as a trading partner in 1989. Food shortages caused by the downturn led to obesity rates falling from […]
Domhnall MacAuley: International Quality Forum, day 1
On welcoming 3300 delegates from 80 countries to the International Quality Forum in London, home of the BMJ, Fiona Godlee (editor in chief, BMJ) asked us to remember the recent […]
Luisa Dillner on TEDMED
I want the world to be a better, healthier place. Really I do. And now, at my first TEDMED conference in Washington DC, I have high hopes of hearing from […]
Domhnall MacAuley: No easy prescription for physical activity
April 6th was World Physical Activity Day—did you miss it? Probably good news. Best to keep doctors out of it. Let me explain: I believe passionately in the benefits of […]
Readers’ editor: What is a “BMJ man (or woman)?”
In the early 1990s I spent the weekend at the home of a friend’s parents, both of them GPs. I’d recently started work as a political news reporter on the […]