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Harvey Marcovitch: Retired doctors and revalidation
Late last year, retired consultant surgeon David Baxter-Smith faced General Medical Council allegations of impaired fitness to practice due to misconduct, a heavy blow for someone at the end of […]
Jennifer Dixon: Is the snap election just a distraction?
For busy clinicians the general election may seem a superficial distraction. But is it? While not all political parties have published their manifestos yet, we’ve had clues from speeches and […]
Chris Simms: We need to prioritise cyber security in this age of global risks
Earlier this year when the World Economic Forum launched its annual 2017 Global Risks Report, an obvious question was whether the global community had learnt from the previous 2016 Global […]
Gwen Adshead: Offending in theatre—the case of Ian Paterson
What is the psychology and motivation for doctors who do wrong? Gwen Adshead discusses the Paterson case […]
Eric D Perakslis: Cyber security modeled as infection prevention and control in the healthcare delivery setting
In the wake of the recent global cyber attack, Eric Perakslis discusses some basic principles of cyber security. […]
Reena Aggarwal: The AHCA poses a threat to women’s healthcare
Plans to defund Planned Parenthood in the US will damage women’s healthcare choices, says Reena Aggarwal […]
Adhisivam Bethou: A lesson from the neonatal unit
A few years back, when we were in the old block, our neonatal intensive care unit was small but had no dearth of tiny new citizens. Some of them were […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—15 May 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Knowledge translation
You would think that the word “knowledge” comes from the word “know”, but it isn’t as simple as that. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) only says “probably”. The problem is […]