The cost of providing care during a pandemic is seeing firsthand the evolution of medical knowledge, and wishing current data could have guided past decisions, says Eric Kutscher […]
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Perry Crofts: Studying medicine affected my mental health—here’s what I learnt
Perry Crofts shares how the competitive culture of medicine and his worries about the stigma of “not coping” took its toll on his mental health […]
Nicky Philpott: Priorities for a #HealthyRecovery
There are many comparisons that can be made between climate change and coronavirus: both are causing widespread harm to health, and require urgent worldwide collaboration and action to prevent greater […]
Covid-19 shows that the lives of people with a learning disability are still not treated as equal
A pandemic does not abrogate our responsibility to protect the lives and human rights of people with a learning disability, says Keri-Michѐle Lodge […]
Managing our expectations as we return to clinical school
As students return to medical school after the disruptions caused by covid-19, they should be keeping their expectations realistic, advise Laura Nunez-Mulder, Mahmoud Elbahnasawi, and Saakshi Bansal […]
Covid-19 is magnifying the digital divide
The covid-19 pandemic has precipitated a digital boom in healthcare, with radical digitisation reported in countries around the world. [1] As the initial peak declines, the NHS is relying on […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Laughter haters
Between 1532 and 1564 the French physician François Rabelais, initially using the anagrammatic pseudonym Alcofribas Nasier, published a scurrilous five-volume novel La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel, in which […]
Rapid co-creation of information resources for surgical patients during covid-19
Surgical patients are facing new territory. On the one hand they hear that admission to hospital for elective surgery carries an increased risk of getting covid-19, on the other, that […]
Hannah Deacon: Patients still do not have access to medical cannabis
For any parent hearing their child’s scream as they have a seizure, and not breathing or responding, would be a harsh wake-up call that life is far from normal. My […]
Additional funds for medical school places must continue beyond 2020
This year’s group of A level students who want to pursue medicine have already experienced considerable disruption. The government and universities must do all they can to support them, say […]