How does an anaesthetist for a busy vascular surgery operating list combine the day job with time for training and time for tea breaks? What if anaesthesia colleagues paired up […]
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Richard Lehman’s journal reviews—23 July 2018
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Carl Macrae: Healthcare safety investigations must offer a safe space for learning
When things go wrong in healthcare, and when patients are harmed, one of the most urgent priorities is to learn from what has happened, so that similar problems do not […]
Shereen El Feki: Time’s up for bad laws on HIV
Earlier this month, four decades of global efforts to develop a vaccine for HIV received a boost with encouraging news from a new clinical trial. It is early days yet, […]
Tips for new doctors: advice for trainees starting in FY1
Advice on how to ease the transition from being a student to a doctor […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Medical Japanese
A recent visit to Japan for the quadrennial meeting of IUPHAR, the International Union of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, prompted me to reflect on Japanese words that have entered the […]
Timothy Caulfield on Elle Macpherson, anti-Vaxx nonsense, and the opportunity to engage
Gossip that an alternative medicine loving supermodel is dating a fraudulent advocate of anti-vaccination nonsense matters […]
Richard Smith: The shambles of the NHS two week urgent appointment system
I have a lesion on my chest that could be a skin cancer, one of the slow growing non-lethal ones. I’ve had it for about two years and thought little […]
Richard Smith: I’ve got cancer
I couldn’t resist the dramatic title, although, as I’ll disclose below, a less dramatic one would more accurately reflect the content of this piece. Normally a title like “I’ve got […]
Nic Madge: Rise in knife crime is a public health emergency
Has the time come to consider further regulating all sales of long pointed knives and replacing them with rounded ends? […]