I’m glad I learnt anatomy via the declining art of full body dissection. I’ll be dining out on the stories for years. It’s one of the first things that people […]
Editors at large
Annabel Ferriman: Finding the smoking gun
The best thing about Richard Peto’s Harveian Oration last week, apart from its brilliance, wit, and perspicacity, was his definition of “middle age.” Whereas a lesser man might have made […]
Domhnall MacAuley: How to be a great researcher
What do you say when giving a talk at a university where you once worked? To speak about publishing, research, and the BMJ would be quite straightforward. It was a […]
David Payne: How websites changed newspapers
The editor emailed me this to seek my views about how to make her weekly Editor’s Choice more relevant to the journal’s online readers. The article gets posted on bmj.com every Wednesday […]
David Payne: Innovation and scholarly publishing
At a conference I attended in Washington DC last week we discussed innovation in scholarly publishing. One activity was to fast forward to 2022 and imagine what would have changed […]
Anita Jain: Evidence based medicine and shared decision making in Delhi
A child with rickets who has received varied, sporadic treatment over two years presents with the inability to walk and a short stature. A 55 year old widow diagnosed with […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Death and youth
Doctors took a long time to recognise that people die. We are no longer afraid to talk about “end of life care.” And, a large number turned up to an […]
Elizabeth Loder: Liberating clinical trial data
Unexpectedly, it seemed I was preaching mostly to the converted when I spoke at the recent US Institute of Medicine Workshop on Sharing Clinical Trial Data. I was given the […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Susan Greenfield forecasts the future at the RCGP-SAPC conference
Forecasting the future is a tricky task. It’s not brain surgery—just more difficult. Baroness Susan Greenfield, brain physiologist, writer, and broadcaster shared her four challenges for the future in the […]
Domhnall MacAuley: The UMT generation reaches middle age
Remember the UMT* and a one in three. Holiday rotas to cover each other. Going to theatre to hold the retractor. Endless lists on scraps of loose paper. Morning toast […]