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Covid-19 and medical education: patients’ teaching role moves online
Online teaching of medical students by patients during covid-19 is set to become the new norm […]
Testing times: An ethical framework for swab testing of NHS workers for covid-19
The covid-19 pandemic has brought many ethical questions into the spotlight. How should scarce resources—such as ventilators—be allocated? Should cardiopulmonary resuscitation be attempted after hospital admission with the virus? How […]
Grant Stewart: My experience of covid-19—not just another experience
I don’t have an angle. What I mean is, when I was asked to write an article about my experience of covid, I wanted to come up with a fresh […]
Klara Morsley: Can covid-19 make the NHS a better employer?
The pandemic has forced the NHS to treat its staff more flexibly. Klara Morsley hopes the organisation will carry some of this learning forward […]
Pharmaceutical companies should publish more research open access
Many organisations are working towards making scientific publications more transparent, discoverable, accessible, and accountable, but wouldn’t it be better if all these organisations could work together? In June, Open Pharma, […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Movements
My column on ivermectin, published two weeks ago, has elicited a few comments, mostly pseudonymous. This prompts me to outline some relevant pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles, starting with the former. […]
Covid-19: The catalyst we needed to reform UK research?
Our experience of covid-19 has brought so many truisms—”nothing will be the same again”—”the new normal”—”post-covid world”, most implying a negative connotation and in many spheres that is definitely the […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—17 July 2020
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals. […]
Looking ahead: the post pandemic future of surgery
Covid-19 has had an immeasurably profound effect on our healthcare system in the UK. While it may be true that we are now past the peak, and hospitalisations as a […]