I’ve been doing some work recently with a GP trainer. I’m not a good judge of these things, but I would put him in his mid-fifties. He strikes me as […]
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Jeremy Sare: Khat’s out the bag
To be a home secretary is to become the embodiment of political contradiction. Last Tuesday, Theresa May announced to parliament a scaling back of “stop and search powers” given their […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—8 July 2013
JAMA 3 July 2013 Vol 310 46 If you identify people with poorly controlled blood pressure in primary care and introduce a system of intensive telemonitoring run by pharmacists according […]
Ashley Graham Kennedy: Do medical titles harm the physician patient relationship?
It was 4 am in the emergency department (ER). An 83 year old woman had come into the ER after experiencing an episode of disorientation and shortness of breath earlier […]
Samir Dawlatly: Times have changed for me
Four years ago I wrote about my diagnosis of bipolar disorder, and how despite this I had gone on to be successful at medical school, in the hope that it […]
Richard Smith: Is the New England Journal of Medicine anti-science?
About once a year a furious researcher writes to me complaining that the New England Journal of Medicine won’t publish a letter that strongly criticises, even demolishes, an article the […]
Sean Roche: Influencing public perceptions of the NHS—the politics of fear and the manufacture of consent
Attending to the health secretary’s recent pronouncements and politicking around the state of the NHS, I find myself reflecting on rather striking parallels with the propagandising that preceded the 2003 […]
Desmond O’Neill: A tale of three cities—geriatric medicine in Australia
Some minds improve by travel, wrote the nineteenth century poet and humorist, Thomas Hood: others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. And so […]
Krishna Chinthapalli: The great consultant mortality rate experiment—part 2
Read part one of this blog here. Bad outcomes Ben Bridgewater thinks there are three main reasons why some consultants have opted out of reporting outcomes: data quality, risk adjustment, […]
Krishna Chinthapalli: The great consultant mortality rate experiment—part 1
An ugly outcome In the early hours of Friday 28 June, a surgeon lay awake with worry. Finally he decided to go into hospital to catch up with his paperwork […]