The German speaking world is having a flare up of burnout. The media are full of stories on burnout, and 150 000 school pupils in Austria are said to be […]
Richard Smith
Richard Smith was the editor of The BMJ until 2004.
Richard Smith: contemplating my deathbed
Through Twitter from my friend Martin I have received a list of the five things that people most commonly regret when dying. This is enormously useful information, much more so […]
Richard Smith: Intercepted correspondence
I must start this blog with a competing interest. I’m the chair of Patients Know Best, a start up that aims to use information technology to enhance the relationship between […]
Richard Smith: Enter the “liquid journal”
It may be what epidemiologists call “ascertainment bias” (seeing what you want to see), but I detect the beginning of the end of prepublication peer review. The latest death knell […]
Richard Smith on improving what the world eats
High blood pressure is the second main cause of disease burden in Australia and is only marginally behind tobacco, said Bruce Neal, senior director, research and development at the George […]
Richard Smith: Can you ask a patient anything?
Can a doctor ask a patient anything? In the Netherlands the answer seems to be “yes.” Doctors tend not to think so, but at a meeting between doctors and patients […]
Richard Smith on doctors’ tricky decisions
One of the pleasures of being a doctor, albeit one who doesn’t see patients, is that you get to chat to other doctors, real ones, about the tricky decisions they […]
Richard Smith: Rediscovering public health through global health
These days I spend lots of time in low and middle income countries, and as I think more about their health problems and less about the endless reorganisations of the […]
Richard Smith: Are you brave enough to feed back?
Are you brave enough to feed back when you see poor behaviour? I wish I was—because feedback can lead to improvement, whereas silence allows the poor behaviour to continue. I’ve […]
Richard Smith: Can the NHS get digital?
Why has the NHS been so much slower to use information technology than other sectors and what might be done to encourage it to speed up? These were questions addressed […]