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Tiago Villanueva: Co-payments in general practice—the Portuguese experience
Since 2011, I’ve worked as a locum GP in Portugal’s national health service, where patients pay five euros for each appointment with a GP. Many people are exempt from paying, […]
Merrilyn Walton: Sexism in medicine in Australia
Australian women, it seems, have had enough. Last week, politicians, a cricketer, and a specialist medical college apologized for sexist comments. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—11 January 2016
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Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Quacks, mountebanks, and charlatans
The common pejorative names for peddlers of ineffective medicines relate to advertising. A quack, wrote Ambrose Bierce in The Devil’s Dictionary, is “a murderer without a license”. The origin of […]
Richard Smith: Learning from ruins
Whenever I wander through ruins I imagine people centuries hence picking through the ruins of my world and wondering about the people who lived there. We can learn from ruins, […]
Sally Marlow and Sadie Boniface: From “plucked out of the air” to grounded in evidence—UK drinking guidelines reviewed
This week the Chief Medical Officer has published new guidelines on drinking alcohol. Was a revision necessary, and if so why? The old guidelines were two decades old, and we […]
Graham Prestwich and Roland Valori: Management opportunity—Job title: Patient
We are seeking motivated and determined project managers with a keen interest in healthcare to join our team of health professionals to improve the health and wellbeing of our population. […]
BMJ in the news: round-up of 2015
From the Ebola crisis to the weekend effect on hospital death rates, The BMJ publishes articles that receive extensive media coverage from top global news outlets. Here we present some […]
George Gillett: Medical schools should teach students to combat disease, not terrorism
The winter holiday is a busy time for medical students. In anticipation of another year of clinical rotations, we’re faced with the annual onslaught of online training activities to prepare for […]