When health data is shared for secondary purposes, such as for research, there is always the concern about patient privacy. Data custodians want to at least meet the requirements in […]
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Edward Davies: Obamacare—it’s time to stop rooting for failure
“Obamacare” is much in the headlines right now and not for the right reasons. Having been the bargaining chip of choice for Republicans during this month’s shutdown, the “health exchanges,” […]
Leana Wen: Announcing the total transparency manifesto
Our healthcare system is broken and in dire need of reform. We all know the statistics: the US spends $2.7 trillion on healthcare, 30% of which is waste in the […]
Richard Smith on John Munro: odd shoes and charisma
How when you are a 20 year old medical student with almost no clinical experience and no experience at all of death do you talk to a dying patient? What […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—21 October 2013
NEJM 17 Oct 2013 Vol 369 1491 “Tiotropium (Spiriva, Boehringer Ingelheim), a long-acting inhaled anticholinergic bronchodilator, improves lung function, quality of life, and exercise endurance and reduces exacerbations in patients […]
Veena Rao: Forging a link between agriculture and nutrition in the Karnataka Nutrition Mission, India
In India, where at least 50% of the population is undernourished and anaemic, any comprehensive strategy to address the problem requires every possible intervention, including the most logical, but elusive […]
Susan Cookson et al: Success with disease surveillance in Somalia
Photo: Children receiving the polio vaccine in Somalia. Despite violence and abuse in Somalia, we wish to report some successes with disease surveillance. […]
Sophie Reshamwalla: The bomb blast injury boys of Pakistan
My mobile rings. It is a nurse from the Emergency Room (ER): “Dr Sophie, we have a boy whose legs have come off. Please could you come to help?” I […]
Richard Smith: The day I kissed 500 women
On Christmas Day 1976 I kissed 500 women. All of them were over 70 and institutionalised, and one was either dead or killed by my kiss. I was a houseman, […]
Billy Boland on joining the NHS leadership academy
Back in June, I was putting the finishing touches to my application for the NHS Leadership Academy. A new and ambitious venture, it aims to bring leadership and management development […]