The introduction of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) into the regular practice of cancer and other specialties within medicine must surely be one of the leading advancements in delivery of healthcare […]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review—29 August 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Art
Ancient physicians considered medicine to be an art, typified by an aphorism of Hippocrates: Plato repeatedly referred to medicine as an art, for example in the Gorgias and the Symposium, […]
Wendy Burn: Girl X has a bed, for now, but what next?
Stigma must not stop investment in mental health services, says the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists […]
Allen Frances: We must not confuse Trump’s bad behavior with mental illness
Trump must be contained, but the proper tools are political, not psychiatric […]
Richard Smith: Advice to the NEJM on dealing with old influential articles with undisclosed COIs
At the end of last year JAMA Internal Medicine published a study that showed that the authors of two highly influential papers published in the New England Journal of Medicine […]
Stephen Bradley: The grade that dare not speak its name
Attempts to ban the term “SHO” seem heavy handed and out of touch […]
Nancy Krieger: Are hate crimes a public health issue?
It is critical to identify structural racism is a key determinant of population health […]
Kieran Walsh: “Tests ain’t fair. Those that study have an unfair advantage.”
Assessment is a core component of medical education. Medical students must undergo continual examinations. Postgraduate trainees must pass their annual assessments. And fully qualified doctors must overcome the twin hurdles […]
Simon Wessely: Stephen Hawking and his love letter to the NHS
Walking into the Royal Society of Medicine last Saturday (19 August) for my first official duty as the incoming President, two things suggested that this was not going to be the […]