I find the exhibition halls at conferences fascinating. They provide an interface between private and public sector which many clinicians are not exposed to in their day to day work. […]
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Richard Smith: What are the causes of health?
Ask doctors for the causes of heart failure or any disease, and answers will pour from them. Ask them about the causes of health or wellbeing, and they will go […]
Adrian James: Why mental health treatment should only ever be “patient-first”
Earlier this month I spoke at a conference on Psychological Therapies for Severe and Prolonged Mental Illness in London. I was one of only two psychiatrists on the bill, among many […]
Rosamund Snow: What makes a real patient?
A few years ago I applied for a grant to study my own long term condition. I started out as Ms Snow, ashamed of saying the name of my disease, […]
Madhukar Pai: How drug resistant TB can show the path to tackling antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health threat, and it is estimated that if we do not find solutions to tackle the rise of drug resistant pathogens, by 2050 10 million […]
Mary E Black: Stik—My NHS Homerton hero
What inspires me? People who think differently, public spaces that are beautiful, art in unexpected moments. So when an enormous blue painting of a sleeping baby appeared on an outside […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—18 July 2016
NEJM 14 July 2016 Vol 375 Olanzapine stops chemo vomiting 134 For about five thousand years, doctors sought out plants that would make their patients vomit, believing that this would […]
Richard Smith: Why does prevention always come behind treatment of disease?
Why does prevention always come behind treatment of disease? Derek Yach, the chief health officer of Vitality, put this question to many people, and these are the answers he got […]
Fiona Godlee: My biggest career failure
Like most of us, I have known failure. I tried to get into Cambridge to do preclinical medicine from sixth form—twice: once in my fourth term and again in my […]
Neville Goodman’s Metaphor Watch: No, we aren’t nearly there
It must be one of the most annoying and predictable child behaviours. Perhaps even more predictable than asking if orange juice has got bits in. Any journey of any length […]