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Richard Smith: Making your complaint count
I’m a great complainer. As I have written before, I believe that we have a duty to complain in order to improve services and products. We usually complain after a poor […]
Daniel Sokol: War Doctor—haunting, disturbing, and uplifting
There is a certain moral simplicity to medicine: a person with a set of skills helps another who is suffering. In contrast, in war men inflict suffering on each other. […]
Abraar Karan: Don’t let your institution define you
The institution doesn’t make the doctor, the doctors make the institution, says Abraar Karan […]
Reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes in men with benign prostatic hyperplasia—old steroids, new tricks
Troublesome symptoms from benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) are common. 5α-Reductase inhibitors (5αRI) are increasingly prescribed to alleviate these problems. Unfortunately, like many other treatments, 5αRI medicines have adverse effects that […]
Simon Fleming: I launched an anti-bullying campaign to change culture in healthcare
Simon Fleming discusses why he launched an anti-bullying campaign […]
Fiona Gillison: Reflections from a casualty of the food industry research funding debate
Researchers are increasingly being encouraged to seek funding from industry sources to support their work, both by research councils and their own institutions. However, within fields such as obesity and […]
Sarah Markham: Screening tools for depression offer value when combined with an informed shared decision process
A study published today in The BMJ assessed the diagnostic accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for screening to detect major depression. The researchers found that the PHQ-9 questionnaire […]
Brooke Levis: The accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 for detecting major depression
In January 2012, just before starting my Masters training in epidemiology, my supervisor Brett Thombs, called me to his office to show me a meta-analysis on the accuracy of the […]
Ceinwen Giles: Brexit—Many patients who have the means to do so are stockpiling drugs
The fact that patients even have to consider this is a shameful indictment of the way in which those with long term health conditions are being ignored […]