Patient activation, self-management, shared decision-making….all of these sound great in practice. I, personally, would be very happy to self-manage myself. If I could figure out how. I never set out […]
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Claire Copeland: Opening ourselves up to Patient Opinion
On 25 October Patient Opinion invited me to a “learning and sharing event for clinicians” in Edinburgh. It was an opportunity to hear from those who have made this feedback […]
Pauline Castres: A coal free future on the horizon
UK Government pledge to end coal use by 2025 With the media abuzz with e-cigarettes and sugary drinks it is easy to overlook the health risks of coal plants. The […]
William Seligman and Mataroria Lyndon: Making American healthcare great again?
After eighteen months of breakneck campaigning, there are few who would have predicted the results we saw in the United States presidential election last night. Donald J. Trump, described by […]
Martin McKee: The High Court ruling on Brexit—what have we learned?
The ruling by three of the most senior judges in England and Wales that Theresa May must seek the approval of Parliament before triggering Article 50, signifying the United Kingdom’s […]
Richard Smith: The optimal peer review system?
Peer review is faith not evidence based, but most scientists believe in it as some people believe in the Loch Ness monster. Research into peer review has mostly failed to […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—7 November 2016
NEJM 3 Nov 2016 Vol 375 Tolerating uncertainty “At once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement . . . when a man is capable […]
Paul Buchanan: Overwhelmed
Feeling overwhelmed. Sometimes that’s what being a patient is all about. Consultations, appointments, tests, results, advice, and therapy “choices”—what on earth am I meant to do? I’m not sure I […]
Why the RCPCH should stop taking funds from the Baby Food Industry
By Tony Waterston and Elizabeth Mason. A collective sigh of relief could be heard from many paediatric associations around the world, after the RCPCH made known its decision to accept […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Choleric
The third of Galen’s four fluid humours of the body, χολή, [yellow] bile, was associated, when in supposed excess, with a choleric temperament, “disposed to anger or easily angered; hot-tempered, […]