The physicians introduced into hospitals this spring and summer will have more asked of them than any newly graduated doctors in a generation. Let’s make sure we support them, says […]
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Xinjuan Wu, Na Guo, Na Zhou, and Shuyang Zhang tell the story of Chinese nurses in the area most affected by covid-19 Healthcare workers around the world are on the […]
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Covid-19: an opportunity or risk to addressing health inequalities?
The results of the covid-19 pandemic will likely only make health inequalities worse. But can this crisis be an opportunity for real change? […]
Transferable lessons for clinical leadership of a field hospital
The covid-19 pandemic has precipitated many changes in the NHS in order to deal with large numbers of people in need of treatment. Temporary Nightingale hospitals have been built in […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—1 May 2020
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals. […]
Rolling out mass hydroxychloroquine prophylaxis for covid-19 in India’s slums risks eroding public trust
Citizens of India are in a period of a six week nationwide lockdown. Physical distancing is largely limited to the rich and upper-middle-class in urban areas and sparsely populated villages, […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Change and decay
Last week I discussed the way in which the function ext can result in curves that go up or down with time, depending on whether x is greater or less […]
We urgently need to start contact tracing to stop the spread of covid-19
Experience from Sheffield suggests that locally led initiatives can support rapid scale up of contact tracing […]
Nikhil Sanyal: Bearing witness to covid-19—a lot of death but not much dying
Before the pandemic palliative care doctors had the luxury of time with their patients and contact with their relatives, but both of these are sadly lacking now, reflects Nikhil Sanyal […]