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Samir Dawlatly: When turning away my patients could be good for them, and for me
Mechanisms to reduce patient demand and workload for GPs have had limited success, as GPs are increasingly the “risk sink” that work gets dumped on. As well as contributing to burnout […]
Samiran Nundy: The challenges of practising surgery in India
The most obvious solution to the challenges Indian surgeons face is to provide universal healthcare coverage […]
Jonathan Whittall: Medics as force multipliers around Mosul—at the expense of medical ethics?
The battle for Mosul is taking place in a densely populated urban centre. Thousands of people are being injured in the crossfire—by explosions, snipers, and air strikes. Sixteen years after […]
Tessa Richards: Better together in Central and Eastern Europe
Healthcare is complex and no single government can manage alone […]
Chris Simms: Russian dolls—revealing Trump’s diminution of the common good
A few weeks ago, two of Donald Trump’s top advisers, H R McMaster and Gary Cohn, astonished many in the world community when they wrote in The Wall Street Journal […]
Liam Brennan: The election result can breathe new life into the NHS
Jeremy Hunt, newly re-installed as health secretary, is set to speak at the NHS Confederation Annual Conference this week in a speech that could set the tone on health for […]
Simon Wessely et al: The most common response to traumatic events is resilience
Morale largely depends on care in first 36 hours: rest centres, facilities for children, information, healthcare, and food […]
William Cayley: Can we beat the productivity paradox by working smarter, not harder?
During my morning drive recently, a radio story on the “productivity paradox” caught my attention. Briefly put, the story explored economists’ concerns that despite ongoing technological development, our actual work productivity […]
Richard Smith: Is evidence based medicine a form of microfascism?
My friend Nicholas Christakis recently tweeted: “Critique of evidence based medicine on grounds that it is exclusionary and ‘colonized’” providing a link to the critical article. He added an NB to […]