One of the sessions I attended at the 15th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Indonesian Association of Plastic Surgeons in Balikpapan was on patient safety. It is incredible to think that […]
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Muza Gondwe on Gondolosi – African Viagra
I first came across it on a weekend sojourn to Lilongwe from Blantyre in Malawi. On the drive up to Lilongwe, the guys took an unscheduled pit stop in a […]
Peter Lapsley: 20/20 hindsight
It is a pity that I did not see Mark Haran and colleagues recent BMJ research paper, “Single lens distance glasses reduce falls in active older people” before my wife, Liza, and I […]
Emily Spry on crowd control in Sierra Leone.
I haven’t written for a month, but that is certainly not because there hasn’t been anything going on at the children’s hospital in Freetown. Rather, it is the opposite. It is […]
What we are reading: 28 May 2010
In the BMJ editorial office, we often come across interesting articles, blogs, and web pages. We thought we would share these with you. Some are medical, some techie, and some […]
Andrew Burd on burns research
I have just returned from Balikpapan in Indonesia, where I was speaking at the 14th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Indonesian Association of Plastic Surgeons. Indonesia is an amazing country […]
K. M. Venkat Narayan: Indian diabetes census – just don’t count on it!
The Union Health Minister of India, Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad recently announced a plan to hold a diabetes census across the country. “We intend to start mandatory testing for diabetes […]
Andrew Burd: “Are you sure?”
It is that time of year again. May heralds the last few weeks of the medical curriculum, culminating in the final examinations. Over the years at the Chinese University I have seen […]
What we’re reading: 7 May 2010
In the BMJ editorial office, we often come across interesting articles, blogs, and web pages. We thought we would share these with you. Some are medical, some techie, and some […]
Joe Collier: Denying people assistance in dying is simply cruel
Whatever else, arguments for and against assisted dying must include the notion of cruelty. In my view there can be little more cruel than to decline the request for help […]