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Richard Lehman’s journal review—14 August 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Alice Hodkinson, David Spitzer, and Iona Heath: Overdiagnosis of end of life
Doctors are much more likely to cause problems by underdiagnosing end of life than by overdiagnosing it […]
Nikolina Skandali: How can Greece tackle its shortage of healthcare staff?
The number of doctors leaving Greece to work abroad is causing a shortage of medical staff in Greece. As a medical student, I have experienced both the British and Greek […]
Bernie O’Reilly: The impact of open disclosure for patients and healthcare staff
Patient advocacy was new to me when I joined Patients for Patient Safety Ireland (PFPSI) in 2015. It was established in 2013 by Margaret Murphy, External Lead Advisor at WHO […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Algorithms
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (ca 780-850; picture) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and geographer who lived during the Caliphate of the Abbasids, a dynasty that ruled in Baghdad from 750 […]
David Gilbert: Asking “What matters to you?”
Asking “What matters to you?” rather than “what’s the matter?” has become a clever bit of reframing within the health service, intended as a phrase to re-imagine the relationship between […]
Philippa Whitford: How Scotland’s NHS took a cooperative approach to quality improvement
While the four UK health services face the same challenges—increased demand due to an ageing population, workforce shortages, and tight finances—they have diverged considerably since devolution and the Nuffield Trust […]
Salah Ibrahim Dongu’du: Too few organisations are responding to huge needs in war-torn Yemen
I recently completed my third humanitarian mission in Yemen with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). I arrived in April 2015, just after the war escalated and the bombing started. During most […]
Claire McDaniel and Daniel Marchalik: The future of genetics—how far is too far?
The Doctor’s Book Club Siddhartha Mukherjee—The Gene All is now secure and fast; Not the gods can shake the Past; Flies-to the adamantine door Bolted down forevermore. Ralph Waldo Emerson […]