How should a European clinical academic react to the fact that the US election appears to have sent a racist, misogynist, climate change denier to the White House? One response, […]
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Seeing human lives in spreadsheets: The work of Hans Rosling (1948–2017)
Hans Rosling died last Tuesday (7 February 2017) at the age of 68, as the Gapminder Foundation—which he co-founded—announced. My deepest condolences to his family, friends, and the many of […]
Junior doctor engagement—we need to own it
The MacCraith report (2014) into medical training recognised that having junior doctors in leadership positions improved communication between hospital management and junior doctors. However, involving junior doctors in the running and […]
Desmond O’Neill: Eros and Methuselah—love and sexuality are important parts of human wellbeing
Although Valentine’s Day is often criticised as a cynical creation of florists and the greeting cards industry, it is a useful focal point for considering love and sexuality as elements […]
Danielle Solomon: The global gag rule is only one of many barriers to contraceptive access
The first week of Donald Trump’s presidency was bookended by two definitive and controversial actions. The first, on 23 January, was the reinstatement and expansion of the “Mexico City policy”—a […]
Thomas Sharp: Has NHS workforce morale reached the point of no return?
I recently read a BBC article that provided an alternative to the regular press rhetoric on NHS performance this winter; namely, that the fact the NHS has been able to perform […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—13 February 2017
NEJM 9 Feb 2017 Vol 376 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Remember MERS? It was the talk of the town five years ago when it was first identified in Saudi Arabia. […]
Chris Simms: Trump and the role of data driven resistance in global health
“Resistance” is an evocative term common to the natural and social sciences where it denotes the act of resisting, opposing, or withstanding. In the so called hard sciences it is […]
Vageesh Jain: The uncertain future of American healthcare
Donald Trump has only been in office for a few weeks and already the first steps to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have been taken. This pre-emptive strike; a demonstration […]
Priscilla Claeys: Ensuring the right to food for rural working people
On 18 January 2017, the issue of the human rights of agricultural workers with no land of their own and other people working in rural areas was placed on the […]