We’ve written before about the difficulty of recognising symptoms that could be signs of cancer, and knowing when it’s appropriate to go to the doctor about them. There’s lots of […]
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In the past decade, medicine has seen a dramatic shift: from a paternalistic approach to one in which patients and clinicians make shared decisions. In parallel, there is a drive […]
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Julie Wood: Yoga and asthma
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Janis Burns on the junior doctors’ dispute: How can we achieve an outcome that satisfies the majority?
As with most things in life, the best solutions are often the most simple, and with retrospect, they were glaringly obvious. The resumption of talks between the BMA and the […]
Rachel Clarke: Junior doctors’ dispute—Jeremy Hunt musn’t ignore doctors’ genuine concerns
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Ellen Broad and Tom Sasse: Google deep in trust issues around use of UK patient data
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Neena Modi: How might the junior doctors’ dispute be resolved?
After months of stalemate, a brief pause has been suggested so that both sides in the junior doctors’ dispute can take a deep breath, and get back to talking. How […]
David Oliver: A dispute played out via soundbites and spin cannot end well for services
I write this a few hours after the BMA agreed that it would take up the offer of renewed contract talks with the government, brokered by the Academy of Medical […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—9 May 2016
NEJM 5 May 2016 Vol 374 Cholera: still not defeated 1723 Endemic cholera is one of those diseases that remind us how unequal the world still is. Cholera from the […]