Uganda, like all low income countries, has formidable health problems and limited resources. If you were the health minister in Uganda what would be your priorities? This question was in […]
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How do the healthcare systems in the UK compare with others internationally?
Two years ago I wrote about how health systems in other countries were grappling with the problems of how to support an ageing population with high rates of comorbidities. I […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—3 May 2016
NEJM 28 April 2016 Vol 374 Colon cheer 1605 As we get more affluent, we drink more alcohol, grill more meat, grab bacon or salami sandwiches for lunch. Up in […]
Nick Hopkinson: Canvassing—should medical students get out on the doorstep?
The price good people pay for not engaging in politics is bad government. I prefer this version of Plato’s aphorism to the more usual “rule by your inferiors” one. The […]
Chris Simms: Deracination—Canada’s aboriginal suicides
Four aboriginal boys, two aged 8 and two aged 9, bolted midday from their school, half-clad, mid-winter, to make the 12 mile trek to their families in Nautley Reserve. When they […]
Suzanne Gordon: The future of the Veteran’s Health Administration
By the end of this year, the US will have a new president as well some new members of Congress. The results of the 2016 election will not only effect […]
Vickie Hawkins: “Your enemy’s doctor is not your enemy. Hospitals are not targets”
Late on Wednesday night two barrel bombs fell on buildings surrounding the hospital of Al Quds hospital in Aleppo, Northern Syria. As tens of wounded were being rushed to the […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Weasel words
It has been reported that Department of Health lawyers have said that the secretary of state for health, known to us as the SoSH or the Cunctator, never intended to […]
Kawaldip Sehmi: The patient-centred approach of the Hillsborough inquest
Respecting the families’ euphoria and personal grief, I delayed this blog post on the Hillsborough inquest verdicts (the verdict came at lunchtime 26 April 2016). Let them savour their day […]
Thomas Macaulay: Senior doctors’ opinions on the junior doctors’ strike
The letters pages of British broadcasts last week were inundated with the views of doctors on the strike of their junior colleagues. Most were united in their criticism of the […]