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Timothy Caulfield: The straw men of integrative health and alternative 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 […]
David Kerr: Don’t move fast and break things
New technology companies need the oxygen of someone else’s money to survive and grow, that’s how capitalism works. Here in California, multi-million dollar investments and eye-watering billion dollar company valuations […]
Samir Dawlatly: Do I need to be more mindful?
In my relatively short career as a GP there has been a surge of interest in talking therapies for mental health problems. It seems that the “one-size-fits-all” population-based research being […]
Amy Godden: Women in surgery
In the 13 years since embarking on my medical training I have witnessed unbelievable progress in many different aspects of medicine as a whole, not least, within gender equality. I […]
Desmond O’Neill: The Healing Touch
Although not as grand as the Museum Quarter of Hapsburg Vienna, Dublin has a proportionately rich concentration of museums, galleries, and Victorian heritage alongside Trinity College Dublin, our own mini […]
Mihail Călin: The impact of the refugee crisis on European health systems
This year, those participants at the European Health Forum Gastein who were not too busy moving from one session to another, too eager to rub shoulders with top level speakers, […]
Neal Maskrey: The three elements of consultations
It’s the conference season and I seem to have ended up talking a lot with doctors about multimorbidity and polypharmacy. There’s pretty much universal agreement that there is too much […]
Henry Murphy: The impact of the junior doctor’s protest march
I couldn’t sleep yesterday morning. Something was wrong. On Saturday I joined 20 000 people marching in protest at the government’s threats to impose a new contract on all doctors below consultant […]
William Cayley: Continuity over efficiency
It has become fairly clearly established that a strong primary care system is associated with better overall health for a society and a more equitable distribution of health in the […]