The BMJ tends not to commission obituaries of non-doctors. I can understand why. The journal’s print obituary section is already awash with the lives of distinguished doctors from the UK […]
Editors at large
Zosia Kmietowicz: Leaping out of inequalities: the power of imaginative play
I spent last Wednesday afternoon with seven 3-4 year olds from Levenhall nursery in Musselburgh, East Lothian, just outside Edinburgh. They were taking part in an immersive theatre production by […]
Kirsten Patrick: COHRED Forum 2012
This week I attended and participated in a panel discussion at the Council for Health Research and Development (COHRED)’s 14th Global Forum for Health Research in Cape Town, South Africa. […]
Rebecca Coombes: Soaring rents but Ghana gets it right on vaccinations
It’s boom time in Ghana right now. The country’s economy soared by 14% in 2011 thanks to new oil receipts—earning it a listing as the world’s fastest growing economy. This […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Ernest Hart leaps out of the Raidió
Tootling along in the car on holiday. Brain idling, half listening to the radio when, out of the middle of an Irish language programme, jumped Ernest Hart. A former editor […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Patient safety and sports performance
Eighty thousand spectators hold their breath as they watch the penalty. Hushed anticipation. Fearful will he hold his nerve, handle the pressure, cope with the stress. But, is it that […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Docs in the box—at International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare
We live in our own little boxes. Maureen Bisognano from the Institute of Healthcare Improvement , in her keynote address, told us we need to get out of our own […]
Deborah Cohen on the attempts to track down unpublished oseltamivir trial data
“The same standard of openness should apply to all (drug) trial data, whether sponsored by industry, investigator-initiated, or sponsored by public grant-giving bodies.” That’s the view of representatives from the […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Cycling spo(o)ked
At the Commonwealth Games I met the cyclists. At the end of each day we grouped together in the television room to watch the edited highlights of the Tour de […]
Tessa Richards: Who is defining patient-centred care?
If the reality of patient care matched the rhetoric of the average “patient-centred” NHS provider it wouldn’t have been necessary for NICE to produce formal guidance on how to improve […]