Maria Muelmenstaedt, an EU national, explains why she is dedicated to the NHS despite the uncertainty that Brexit has cast on her future. […]
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Stella Vig: Will making new doctors work in the NHS for five years improve retention?
The Department of Health have recently launched a consultation to look at whether doctors should be forced to work in the NHS for at least five years after completing their training in England. […]
Bernard Merkel: Article 50 and the potential effects of Brexit on health
As Article 50 is triggered, Bernard Merkel discusses the potential impact that Brexit could have on health […]
Avinash Supe: Violence against doctors cannot be tolerated
Avinash Supe discusses why there has been a spate of attacks against doctors in India and what can be done. […]
Alice Murray and Saira Ghafur: The Republican healthcare bill fails
Donald Trump’s bill to repeal the ACA has failed. Alice Murray and Saira Ghafur assess what happened and what impact this will have on US healthcare. […]
Lillie Wenzel: The impact of NHS financial pressures—a mixed picture
Recent figures revealed that NHS providers have a deficit of nearly £900 million for the first three quarters of 2016/17—a clear sign that NHS organisations are struggling in the face […]
Anita Charlesworth: National policy can create barriers which undermine consultant productivity
“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long-run it is almost everything.” So said Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning economist, and not many economists would disagree. Productivity powers economic growth […]
Richard Smith: How would medicine be altered by aunt Léonie’s machine?
“My aunt Léonie,” writes Marcel Proust in In Search of Lost Time, “wished to see invented a machine that would enable the doctor to undergo all the sufferings of his […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—27 March 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the leading medical journals […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Translational research—early developments
Last week I discussed the nonlinear nature of systematic reviews and suggested that many aspects of medical science are also nonlinear. I believe this to be true of translational medicine. […]