On 8 July it was reported that a man died in Manchester after police hit him with a Taser shot. According to the BBC, this death is “the tenth to […]
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Isobel Braithwaite: Sustainable healthcare education—what is it, and why does it matter?
Welcome to a series of blogs on sustainable healthcare that look at health, sustainability, and the interplay between the two. The blogs share ideas from experts across […]
Frances Mortimer: Sustainable clinical practice
Welcome to a series of blogs on sustainable healthcare that will look at health, sustainability, and the interplay between the two. The blog will share ideas from experts across the […]
Richard Lehman on the 7th International Shared Decision Making conference
The seventh International Shared Decision Making (ISDM) conference, sponsored by the BMJ, took place in Lima, Peru, over the last three days. It was organised by Victor Montori, a charismatic […]
Georgios Lyratzopoulos on the NAEDI and the Ca-PRI conferences, 2013
In retrospect, 1999 could be seen as the low point for cancer control policy in the UK. In that year, the Eurocare 2 study showed that the survival of patients […]
Andrew Burd: Chaperones, sex, and lies
I suspect that like many others of my generation the concept of a chaperone was introduced through school era reading of the classic works of Jane Austin. The necessity to […]
Tony Waterston: Children’s rights in England–a long way to go
Five strong women addressed the packed chamber at the Palace of Westminster, perhaps illustrating the predominance of women in the children’ sector. The subject was the launch of the 2012 […]
Sharon Davies: Why we’re reluctant to remove rapid responses from bmj.com
We are reluctant to remove rapid responses from bmj.com because they are part of the BMJ’s record—and hence science’s record. We believe that there are few good grounds for tampering […]
Andrew Burd: Are data real?
I have just turned 60 and am due to retire at the end of this academic year. In anticipation of this rather sad situation I enrolled, two years ago, in […]
Tony Waterston: Children seeking asylum in the UK
She was a mature 16 and could be taken for an adult. Indeed it was with the words of an adult that she expressed the fears, anxiety, and stress she […]