We look on in silence from the car window as scenes of normality in central Calais, a typical Western European city, give way to the squalor and misery of the […]
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Dragan Ilic: Where’s the evidence for teaching evidence based medicine?
This blog is part of a series of blogs linked with BMJ Clinical Evidence, a database of systematic overviews of the best available evidence on the effectiveness of commonly used […]
Richard Smith: QMUL and King’s college should release data from the PACE trial
Several times when I was the editor of The BMJ the journal was declared the worst medical journal in the world by an ME association. Sometimes we shared the award with […]
Tony Waterston: Coming up for air at COP 21
Standing under the Eiffel Tower on the last day of the climate conference in Paris, the solidarity I felt with the thousands of demonstrators from around the world was invigorating. […]
Zhongjie He et al: China’s “Emergency Platinum Ten Minutes” Programme
In any accident scene, rapid removal of the casualty to hospital improves their chances of survival. The term “Golden Hour” was first introduced in 1961 by R Adams Cowley, [1] […]
Azeem Majeed: Moving forwards with research on the “weekend effect”
Two articles published in The BMJ in 2015 on the “weekend effect” have sparked considerable debate in The BMJ and on social media. [1,2] A number of previous studies have reported […]
Robin Stott: In favour of constructive dissent
Constructive dissent is essential to arriving at the best possible solution to difficult problems. Jeremy Corbyn provided this useful service in the run-up to the debate on extending bombing into […]
Neville Goodman’s Metaphor Watch: Three weeks on the front line
This blog has so far picked a metaphor, or a theme for metaphors, and searched for them. There are many metaphors that are less overt. For the last blog of […]
Aula Abbara et al: British air strikes may affect Syrian healthcare
The vote by the British parliament on 3 December for air strikes on Syria has consequences for the already catastrophic humanitarian and medical situation in Syria and surrounding countries. The […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—14 December 2015
NEJM 10 Dec 2015 Vol 373 Pacific treatments for scabies 2305 Wow. Here is the ultimate cluster randomised trial: an island randomised trial. First find your islands in the vastness […]