An oncologist from Tulcea, a city 280 kilometres east of Romanian capital Bucharest, returned to work one week into his retirement because there was no other specialist to care for […]
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Richard Smith: Improving health through the community in Tunisia
Tunisia, like all low and middle income countries, is having to respond to non-communicable disease after making good progress in reducing infectious disease and improving child and maternal health. Premature deaths […]
Anand Bhopal: Improving clinical consultations—one computer key at a time
Modern medicine is an increasingly wary place for the digitally illiterate. With medical records turning electronic and computers springing up at the bedside, there is little hiding place for doctors […]
Emma Parish: Risky Business 2014—I choose to be optimistic
Leaving the Risky Business event I was abuzz with enthusiasm to “choose my attitude,” “listen to the right people,” and treat patient safety “like lives depend on it.” However, it […]
Dan Bloomfield: Sometimes patients could use a dose of nature, but how could it be prescribed?
This blog is part of a series on sustainable healthcare, which looks at health, sustainability, and the interplay between the two. The blog is coordinated by the Centre for Sustainable […]
Jamila Sherif et al: The current state of healthcare in Gaza
State of healthcare in June 2014 Three weeks before the start of the current Israel–Gaza conflict, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza declared an emergency, saying that they were […]
Iñaki Martínez Nimatuj and Mónica Garcia Asensio: A pharma free medical conference
Osatzen is the Basque Family Physicians Scientific Society and part of the federation semFYC (the Spanish Family Physicians Society). It is composed of 900 GP partners who pay an annual fee […]
Barry Main et al: Bringing informed consent back to patients
Every day around the world, thousands of operations are undertaken. In the days and weeks leading up to these procedures, surgeons and their patients discuss the goals of surgery, expected […]
Anneli Hujala: Multimorbidity challenges care professionals to cross boundaries
The ICARE4EU project wants to improve the care of people who are suffering from multiple chronic conditions. It will describe, analyse, and identify innovative integrated care models for people with […]
Jane Feinmann: A way forward for quality peer review
Blind faith that the publication of medical research in peer reviewed journals elevates a study to the status of “the evidence,” and therefore “the truth,” may be on the wane […]