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Comparative twin study: Access to healthcare services in the NHS and the American private insurance system
What the NHS will ultimately look like under Conservative party leadership has yet to be determined. But the potential impact of American private healthcare interests remains part of the discussion. […]
Alex Nowbar’s weekly journal review—14 February 2020
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals. […]
Min Zhang: Protecting healthcare workers in China during the coronavirus outbreak
Protecting healthcare staff on the frontline is a critical challenge for this outbreak, says Min Zhang […]
Beth Thompson: We need to reimagine the way research works
Over three years I dedicated long hours and weekends to the PhD project that I was desperate to make a success. I wanted my research to make a useful contribution […]
Sequestering carbon by regenerating soil, planting trees, and changing land use
Robin Stott, a doctor and ardent environmentalist has been campaigning on climate change for the past 20 years. He offers some thoughts on the potential benefits of simultaneously enriching soil […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Painkillers—a linguistics based approach
Jamie Coleman, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology in Birmingham, has proposed replacing the term “painkiller” with “pain reliever”, in the hope of reducing people’s expectations of the therapeutic effects of opioid […]
Navjoyt Ladher: Let’s talk about race
In our special theme edition addressing racism in medicine, we wanted to take a considered approach to the language we use in the journal. It is a truism to say […]
Roger Kline: What if a patient wants to choose the ethnicity of their doctor?
Last autumn trauma and orthopaedic surgeon Radhakrishna Shanbhag shared his experience of being racially abused by patients during his 27 years working in the NHS. One particular incident, when a […]
Aneez Esmail and Sam Everington: The perils of researching racial discrimination
It’s more than 25 years since the publication of our paper on Racial Discrimination in Medicine in The BMJ which showed that British trained doctors with English sounding names were […]