Last week we heard the devastating news that another junior doctor has taken their own life. Another remains missing. Cases like this are not new in medicine and are reported […]
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Liz Wager: How much of a conflict of interest is too much for a peer reviewer?
One of the conundrums of peer review is that reviewers need to be knowledgeable about the research being reported but shouldn’t have conflicts of interest. The trouble is that the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—10 April 2017
“Shared understanding is the central challenge of medicine in this century.” Read this week’s research reviews by Richard Lehman. […]
Suzanne Gordon: The power of thank you
I recently saw the power of thank you highlighted on two different occasions in healthcare settings. On the first, I was following a team of physicians who were conducting patient […]
Sunil Bhandari: Have we lost sight of clinical training and the patient?
Medicine used to be fun. I could spend time chatting to patients and listening to their ideas, concerns, and expectations. Hopefully, despite their predicament I could bring them hope that we, […]
Choosing Wisely around the world: Professionalism as a force to reduce unnecessary care
The Choosing Wisely campaign emerged in the United States with the intention of galvanizing physicians to reduce unnecessary care. While excess care is costly, physician leadership on this problem through Choosing Wisely […]
Is India’s national health policy geared towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals?
The adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) in 2015 marked a shift in the global development agenda from the earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) era. SDGs are particularly important for […]
Liz Salmi: Tomorrow’s patients will demand greater transparency and openness
I began blogging about my experience as a person living with brain cancer after I had my first symptom—a grand mal seizure—after my 29th birthday in July 2008. Unlike a […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Translational research—a further model
In the past two weeks I have used the metaphor of crossing bridges in discussing translational research, and have derived a model of it from definitions in the Cooksey report, […]
Tessa Richards: Words that annoy, phrases that grate
What is acceptable or unacceptable medical terminology in today’s world, asks Tessa Richards. […]