Giving doctors time, space, and continuity may actually save money […]
Editors at large
Niamh Brooks: Celebrating women in medicine—a 150 year journey
To have made female clinicians the norm is an accomplishment worth celebrating […]
Will Stahl-Timmins: Can graphic design save your life?
An exhibition of beautiful and significant design work, which asks the wrong question of the wrong people, writes Will Stahl-Timmins […]
Partnership between the BMJ and Pfizer: Learn and change to improve the evidence
People do health research for many different reasons. Most, we hope, try to answer questions that are important to patient care or policy, with a chance of informing service development […]
Robin Baddeley: Should UK training programmes have doctors based on one site for two years?
A “residency model” may help rebuild bonds between doctors and their employers […]
Peter Doshi: Speed vs safety in the FDA’s new drug approvals—speed wins, again
In the late 1980s, AIDS activists stormed the headquarters of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with a message that the FDA’s drug approval process was, simply put, killing […]
Theo Bloom: Transparency or anonymity in peer review—which is fairer?
Increasing openness is a better route to eliminating biases than increasing anonymity […]
Niamh Brooks: “To be a good doctor can be painful”—career advice from Henry Marsh
What does it take to be a good doctor today? […]
Juliet Dobson: Delivering access to contraception worldwide
Current economic and political climates are posing a threat to women’s sexual and reproductive rights […]
Kate Adlington: Without borders—lessons for transinclusive medicine
With a theme of “Psychiatry without Borders,” The Royal College of Psychiatry’s annual International Congress in Edinburgh last week was on trend in a post-Trump, post-Brexit era. Delegates were welcomed to […]