The Doctor’s Book Club Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise […]
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Richard Smith visited and wrote about the NHS in Dumfries and Galloway in 1980, 1990, and 1999, and this series of blogs describes what he found in 2016. A feature […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—20 February 2017
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Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Snakes, snarks, and boojums
Last week I discussed the origins of words to do with snakes, such as serpent and sepsis, derived from the IndoEuropean root SERP, meaning to creep or crawl. However, that […]
Tom Nolan: Freeing up some cognitive bandwidth in general practice
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Abraar Karan: Publication should not be the endgame of medical research
Medical students are constantly encouraged to publish academic work, but they are rarely instilled with the value of what the potential impact of that work could be, says Abraar Karan. […]
How to repeal Obamacare: A wicked problem
One of the first executive orders that Donald Trump signed after his inauguration as president of the United States was to impede the financing of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) […]
Geoff Debelle: Why the Children and Social Work Bill needs to be amended
Safeguarding vulnerable children is a priority for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). I have therefore been closely following the passage of the Children and Social Work […]
Paul Buchanan on Rosamund Snow
Some people are born into the world to enrich it. To give more than they could ever take. To bring to others a rare glimpse into a future we could all […]
Richard Smith: Dumfries and Galloway NHS 7—Services in Stranraer are still presenting difficulties
Richard Smith visited and wrote about the NHS in Dumfries and Galloway in 1980, 1990, and 1999, and this series of blogs describes what he found in 2016. A feature […]