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Markus G. Seidel: Baby genome screening—paving the way to genetic discrimination?
Newborn screening programmes for a set of disease biomarkers are mandatory in many countries of the world in order to detect inborn errors early on and to avoid disabilities in […]
Jeremy Hunt: We need to be flexible about the need for flexible working
As a nation we’re fortunate that in NHS staff we have one of the most flexible workforces on the planet. When patients need care at the end of a shift, […]
Lucinda Hiam: Grenfell survivors shouldn’t be afraid to go to hospital
Immigration and healthcare are separate issues, and denying people healthcare in a bid to deter immigration is inhumane […]
Tessa Richards: Terms of engagement for patient participation
Join our Tweetchat today at 5-6pm BST to discuss the terms of engagement for patient participation #BMJDebate […]
Desmond O’Neill: Going digital for global medical humanities
To those teaching and researching the medical humanities, major exhibitions of great art represent a wonderful opportunity for a focal illumination of how medicine and the arts interact. However, for […]
Pauline Castres: Climate change cannot wait
The UK government’s climate advisers’ call for action The Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the UK government’s official climate adviser, recently delivered its latest assessment of the UK’s progress to […]
Richard Smith: Giving medical students patient contact through online consultation
Medical students arrive at medical school hungry to have contact with patients, but it can be unfair to unleash on patients students who know nothing of medicine and until yesterday […]
Junaid Nabi: Can addressing the spiritual needs of patients help us deliver high quality end of life care?
Should doctors only engage in conversations about life, death, and dying when it pertains to clinical matters? Or is spiritual care part of a physician’s duties? […]
Claire McDaniel and Daniel Marchalik: The other side of research in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Doctor’s Book Club Rebecca Skloot—The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks On 27 August 1963, Emanuel Mandel, the director of medicine at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital (JCDH), told his […]