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Fictional heroes take on real public health problems: Japan’s use of manga and anime in health campaigns
Public health authorities need to get creative in how they communicate with the public, say Hiroshi Naruse, Kazuaki Jindai, and Tomoya Saito […]
Australia’s health ministers ignore concerns about mandatory reporting of unwell doctors
Sick doctors will delay or avoid seeking help for fear of being reported to the national regulator […]
Sam Finnikin: Financial support and revolutionary fervour needed to embed shared decision making
You may, or may not, have noticed that the 6 June was “What matters to you?’ Day”—an international initiative to encourage people to have a “What matters to you?” conversation […]
We don’t need AI to pass the Turing Test to be helpful in healthcare
This week, Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, announced that hospitals are to receive extra funding for substituting human labour with AI-provided analysis. We applaud the move by the […]
David Wrigley: The message from UK doctors is clear—our NHS is not for sale
The US President Donald Trump’s recent state visit to the UK understandably caused a stir in the media, although not necessarily for all the right reasons. It was his comments, […]
Matt Morgan and Peter Brindley: The car seat of life
While stuck in an angry snarl of traffic during another grey morning commute, I had time to contemplate the view from the car’s rear-view mirror. If this was the “family […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Biomarkers—definition and uses
Many clinical outcomes, both primary and secondary, which I discussed two weeks ago, are not the desired outcomes, but markers of such—surrogate markers or biomarkers. The term “biomarker” comes from […]
Medical manslaughter: will the findings of an independent review be a tipping point for change?
The General Medical Council (GMC) has just published the 29 final recommendations of the long-awaited review into how gross negligence manslaughter and culpable homicide are applied to medical practice. This […]
Katherine Bettany: Our value as doctors cannot be wrapped up in ARCP
Junior doctors know that the third certainty in life, beyond death and taxes, is the annual review of competency progression, or ARCP. For me at least, I have the same […]