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Fiona Sim: Obesity—personal responsibility or environmental curse?
To place all of the blame on the individual is to completely ignore the very real power of our surroundings […]
Sebastian Walsh: Do more with the students who come to our wards
When revising for medical school finals I used lists. Lists and lists of conditions, many of them rare, and many of which I hadn’t seen in practice yet. One such […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—23 October 2017
Richard Lehman unpicks the problems of so much modern medicine […]
Robert Mugabe is an improbable Goodwill Ambassador for Health
WHO have cancelled Mugabe’s goodwill ambassador role, but this was an uncharacteristic misstep by the WHO DG […]
Christine Stirling: Move over RCT—time for a revised approach to evidence based medicine
We are stifling our capacity to use research evidence for patient centred outcomes by privileging RCTs […]
Tom Treasure: The birth of heart surgery
The beginnings of heart surgery are known from the published record of momentous “first” operations on congenital and acquired malformations, retold in the biographies and reminiscences of the surgeons responsible […]
Kishore Jayakumar: Is it time to expand immunisation mandates in the US?
Though vaccines are among the most successful public health interventions in history, childhood vaccine refusal among parents is increasingly prevalent in the United States. Vaccine refusal increases the risk of […]
Neville Goodman’s metaphor watch: Tectonic shifts
When I equated the quantum leap to the big bang, I overlooked another term borrowed from another science: tectonic shift. The adjective tectonic is older than modern geology; it comes […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Modes of speech: can and may, must and should
Which is better: “Aspirin can cause Reye’s syndrome” or “Aspirin may cause Reye’s syndrome”? The answer lies in a consideration of modal verbs, also called modal auxiliaries. Modal verbs are […]