A survey carried out by the Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Charity in the UK, which exposed the toll on patients of undergoing repeated lumbar puncture, has spurred a collaborative research project […]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review—5 March 2018
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Meldonium
Meldonium is in the news again. It was banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in January 2016 for use by sportsmen and women, because it supposedly increases blood flow […]
Neville Goodman’s metaphor watch: Let’s talk about the weather
Meteorological metaphors are common in everyday speech: he was lightning fast; you are my sunshine; it’s clear skies from now on. That doesn’t make them common in medical writing, and […]
Daniel Sokol: A database of medical, ethical, or legal cases with valuable lessons for clinicians
When I visited the clinical ethics department at Washington Hospital Center some years back, I was impressed by how acute ethical dilemmas, once resolved, led to presentations in the affected […]
Rebecca Rosen: What value should be attributed to professional judgement when it is pitted against customer expectations?
We need to find a way to deal with the touch-point between professional judgement and consumer sovereignty […]
Samar Betmouni: Time for a new digital pathology strategy and re-imagined diagnostic service in the UK
An evaluation of the UK’s pathology capacity by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has identified that over the next 5-10 years “there is likely to be a severe crisis.” The report […]
Rediscovering humanitarianism in the wake of the aid agencies scandal
As the reverberations of the recent scandal regarding sexual exploitation in the aid sector continue to ricochet around the world, hogging headlines, and eliciting the inevitable (belated) response of “never […]
Treatment or surveillance for CIN2: when less is more
Over the course of a day, a gynaecologist will care for patients with a wide range of presentations—from a premature baby who doesn’t survive beyond the first nights whose young […]
Sharon Roman: My doctors, my placebo effect
An excellent patient-doctor relationship is capable of doing much good, even when medicine no longer can […]