Mike Roberts and colleagues summarise key aspects of this complex multi-system clinical syndrome […]
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Andy Cowper: Slippery language and defensive politics try to hide the real problems
One golden rule of a crisis of the scale of the covid-19 pandemic must be that leaders’ communications need to be exceptionally candid and clear and that they need to […]
A novel coronavirus, a novel disease, and a novel approach to intensive care medicine
Dan Martin reflects on his experience of working in ICU during the covid-19 pandemic […]
Charlotte Squires: The shielded doctor
I am a medical registrar and therefore should be an asset to the current covid-19 pandemic; unlike trainees being redeployed from other specialties, acute medicine is where I have trained, […]
Is there a role for Fangcang hospitals in the UK?
As the outbreak of covid-19 developed in Wuhan and the number of people infected grew, health authorities realised that failure of home isolation was fuelling the epidemic: over half of […]
Agnes Arnold Forster: Has covid put practitioners back in touch with their reasons for becoming healthcare professionals?
For the last couple of years, I have been interviewing British surgeons about their emotions, professional identities, and working lives. For the last couple of weeks, a new question has […]
Covid-19: Protect health and social care workers and refer their deaths to the coroner
It is imperative that there is no further delay in providing every healthcare worker with effective PPE […]
Chaand Nagpaul: The disproportionate impact of covid-19 on ethnic minority healthcare workers
In February, The BMJ devoted an edition to the issue of race inequalities in medicine. At that time, no one could have foreseen that new race disparities would manifest themselves […]
Covid-19: the game changer—for healthcare and society
The coronavirus disease (covid-19) was first identified in China,1,2 and declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11th March 2020.3 On that same evening, I was alongside 52,000 […]
Derek Alderson: To operate now or later—that is the surgical question
To support medical teams determine what is truly urgent, and what is not, I have spent the last ten days working with colleagues across the country to produce new guidance. […]