The Evidence Based Medicine Manifesto (EBM manifesto) has been launched to improve the implementation of evidence based interventions by pulling together a clear set of achievable goals, and a strong […]
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Richard Smith: Dumfries and Galloway NHS 2—Recruitment is the number one problem
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 […]
Jennifer McCaughan and Aisling E Courtney: Is balancing risk the most important skill in clinical medicine?
Every decision, both in life and in medicine, involves a balance of risk: the decision to go on holiday balances the risk of travelling to and staying in a foreign […]
Diana Zuckerman: “What does it mean to march for women in 2017?”
Did the Women’s March on Washington, across the US, and in major cities around the world have anything to do with medical care? Yes and no. I’ve lived and worked […]
Daniel R Lucey: “Much more must be done to implement post-Ebola reforms”
In a recent Analysis in The BMJ, Suerie Moon and colleagues convincingly argue that not enough has been done to implement actions recommended by seven post-Ebola reports in order “to […]
Richard Smith: Dumfries and Galloway NHS I—The three priorities of the chief executive
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 […]
BMJ winter charity appeal: “Orbis was the platform from which I progressed”
The year was 1992 and the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital had landed at Chiang Mai International Airport in the north of Thailand. Its mission: to provide training and mentorship to […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—23 January 2017
NEJM 19 Jan 2017 Vol 376 Transmission of drug resistant TB Tuberculosis in Europe used to be known as the White Death, and that is the title of the best […]
Aarefa Johari: Why doctors need to speak out against female genital cutting in India
Female circumcision, known around the world as female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM or FGC), is recognised as a human rights violation by the World Health Organisation. It involves cutting […]
Abraar Karan: The success trap of academic medicine and the need for change
The career options available to physicians today are more diversified than they have ever been. Physicians are making their presence known in areas that are not fully clinical, including policy, […]