In May 2013 in The BMJ, a group of patients, clinicians, and editors called for a patient revolution, which would empower patients to “work in partnership . . . [with their […]
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Aditya J Nanavati: How do surgeons reflect on surgical complications?
Losing a patient in the operating room is probably every surgeon’s worst nightmare. I recently happened to experience such an event. Not my first and probably not my last. Yet […]
Pallavi Bradshaw: Are medics increasingly at risk of being criminalised?
However clichéd it may sound, like most medics I wanted to be a doctor to help people. While we strive to do the best for our patients, there will be […]
Karl Swedberg and Inger Ekman on person centred care in Europe
The health systems of the European Union make up a central part of Europe’s social protection. They contribute to social cohesion and social justice as well as to sustainable development. […]
The BMJ Today: Readmission rates and a second look at torture
Readmission rates to hospitals are often used as markers for quality of care, although a consistent link between readmissions and quality has not been established. Leora I Horwitz and colleagues conducted a […]
Rahul K Parikh: Violence against doctors in the US
Late last month, Stephen Pasceri walked into a Boston hospital and asked someone to point him in the direction of his deceased mother’s surgeon, Dr Michael Davidson. When he found […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . First things first
Which words came first? And whence comes “first?” In his Historiai, Book II, Herodotus tells how an Egyptian king, Psamtik (he calls him Psammetichus), undertook an experiment. He entrusted two […]
Julian Sheather: Will the confluence of big data and the genomics revolution lead to a transformation in personalized healthcare?
Will the confluence of big data and the genomics revolution lead to a transformation in personalized healthcare, or are the emperors’ clothes looking a little threadbare? This was the theme […]
The BMJ Today: Start your week by fine tuning your clinical research skills
Most doctors are dedicated clinicians who have worked extremely hard to earn the privilege of practising the art of medicine and caring for their fellow human beings. But there are, […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—9 February 2015
NEJM 5 Feb 2015 Vol 372 519 Refractory angina seems to be common in cardiac clinics but not in primary care. When all the drugs have failed, and revascularization is […]