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Tim Spector: Breakfast—the most important meal of the day?
The mantra of breakfast being the most important meal of the day has been ingrained in most of us from an early age—from our mother’s mouth as we were late […]
The courts should judge applications for assisted suicide, sparing the doctor-patient relationship
A patient’s right to assisted suicide should be legislated for in parliament, officiated by the courts, and should not impinge on the doctor-patient relationship, says Zoe Fritz […]
Mark Pickering: Religious and non-religious people share objections to assisted suicide
Vulnerable people may request assisted suicide because they think they are a burden, and the limits of any new law could be expanded, writes Mark Pickering […]
Jane Pightling: Designed in the right way social prescribing could deliver huge benefits, let’s not waste it
There has been much discussion about social prescribing since funding announcements were made over the summer. Yesterday it was announced that more than 1000 link workers will be recruited by […]
Hearfield and Collier: We need to do more to help with skill fade after extended leave
There is plenty to think about when returning to work after an extended period of work absence. This is before even considering how a break from clinical practice has affected […]
Frank D’Ambrosio: Why I recommend medicinal cannabis as a replacement analgesic for opioids
I am an orthopaedic spine surgeon. When I started my practice in 1993, my focus was predominantly on reconstructive surgery of the spine for back pain. After 20 years of […]
Hyperbole in surgical manuscripts: time to drop the paradigm?
As competition grows and financial interests of research expand, researchers and the institutions that employ them are tempted to exaggerate the relevance of research findings. Vinkers and colleagues examined how […]
Ian Leistikow: The three stages of safety improvement
At an international Roundtable Meeting that BMJ hosted in Riyadh in 2018, speakers from nations with very different cultural backgrounds, came to the similar conclusion that healthcare needs a culture […]
Anna Olsson-Brown: The benefits of QI are numerous and the challenges worth overcoming
Clinical audit has long been a feature of clinical training for junior doctors, so I expected time to be set aside in which we could do it. However, the reality […]