I have presented at many events on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and come across difficult to treat infections in my own practice, but I had never seen an untreatable infection. That […]
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You might think that “rhetoric” and “oratory” came from the same linguistic root. But it appears not, which is fitting, considering the difference in meaning. Scholars tell us that rhetoric […]
Tessa Richards: Patients’ role in making care safer
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Showing solidarity with health professionals everywhere on the need for water, sanitation, and hygiene
Delia Jepson and Cheryl Stanley, midwives, Liverpool Women’s Hospital We started this year by travelling to rural Tanzania with WaterAid to experience what daily life is like for the committed […]
Neel Sharma: Sayre’s law—any hope for change in academia?
“In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake . . . that is why academic politics are so bitter.” Wallace […]
Richard Lehman: Pre-diabetes: can prevention come too soon?
In the last fifty years, most people across the world have had more food to eat and less physical work to do. On the plus side, we are living longer—often […]
Neville Goodman’s Metaphor Watch: leave cocktails to the bar staff
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Indermeet Sawhney: Incapacitated patients and rights to liberty
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The Affordable Care Act: Lessons learnt and unintended consequences
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), colloquially called “Obamacare,” has drastically changed the American healthcare landscape: providing a safety net to millions of uninsured people, creating more robust mechanisms for improving […]
What next for refugees after the demolition of the Calais camp?
By Frédérique Drogoul and Samuel Hanryon For most of 2016, whenever one of us visited the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) project in the refugee settlement in Calais, France, we would […]