The sorry saga of fugitive gunman Raoul Moat has no doubt triggered countless watercooler conversations about the extent to which he was “mad, bad, or just plain evil.” A colleague […]
Editors at large
Edward Davies: The NHS white paper (entirely predictable and not very radical)
Two of the major charges being thrown at this week’s health white paper have been that it is completely unexpected and brain-meltingly radical. On the first point I’ve already had […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Don’t mention climate change
Don’t talk about climate change. Don’t even use the words. It is liable to make people stick their heads in the sand. David Pencheon, Director of the NHS Sustainable Development […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Society of academic primary care meeting July 7th-9th
When a surgeon praises the achievements of primary care, you sit up and listen. Admittedly, Professor Sam Leinster was welcoming delegates to the Society of Primary Care meeting at the […]
Domhnall MacAuley on IVF
Death and the quest for new life seem unlikely companions. Last week’s headline read “Inquest told woman who died in car fire was ‘devastated’ over failed IVF.” The other side […]
Edward Davies: GP Commissioning. Again.
Here at Groundhog Day, I mean the NHS Confederation annual shindig, the talk of the conference floor is GP commissioning. Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s speech last night was pretty low […]
Birte Twisselmann: Web publishing – less is more
Stanford University’s HighWire Press, webhosts to the BMJ and some 1400 other scholarly journals, convened its spring meeting in Palo Alto, California, on 7-8 June 2010 in warm, sunny weather […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Elite performance in endurance sports
To meet with the president of the American College of Sports Medicine…you arrange to go for a jog. A family doctor, team doctor, researcher, departmental chair and now a major […]
Helen Jaques: Reporting from the front line of research
Monday morning. Wake up, drag yourself into town . . . and spend 45 minutes or so in a magnetic resonance imaging machine. That’s how I spent my Monday morning […]
Richard Hurley: Private financing of hospitals
Doctors should demand publication of the details of deals made between the UK government and private investors to build hospitals under private finance initiatives (PFIs), Professor Allyson Pollock told a […]