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Billy Boland: Generation Y’s approach is a sensible strategy for resilience
I enjoyed reading Victoria Twigg’s piece on the training needs of Generation Y recently. It is obvious we need to think much more about what attracts people into medicine and […]
Gro Harlem Brundtland: Political commitment is the key to Universal Health Coverage
Universal health coverage is not just desirable, but eminently achievable […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—10 July 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Resistentialism
“Resistentialism is a philosophy of tragic grandeur. It … derives its name from its central thesis that Things (res) resist (résister) men. Philosophers have become excited at various times, says […]
Urban public health strategies will be key to ending AIDS
Reuben Granich, Sindhu Ravishankar, and José M. Zuniga Good News from London It is welcome news that HIV diagnoses in England fell by 17% between 2014 and 2015 with a […]
We need to end “cut” practice in Indian healthcare
Commissions are symptomatic of the dominance of market medicine in India. It will take more than just laws to break this deep-rooted practice. […]
Richard Smith: Impressions of Devi Shetty’s hospital city—bringing surgery to the masses
I’m standing with Devi Shetty, a cardiac thoracic surgeon in his surgical gear, between two paediatric intensive care units with around 40 cots. All the cots are full apart from […]
Mary E Black: Creating a path for organ donation
Every time the story of an organ donation is told, that path is more fully trodden […]
Kate Adlington: Without borders—lessons for transinclusive medicine
With a theme of “Psychiatry without Borders,” The Royal College of Psychiatry’s annual International Congress in Edinburgh last week was on trend in a post-Trump, post-Brexit era. Delegates were welcomed to […]