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Richard Smith: 14 years at the helm of NICE
“You’ll do, but you’re not my first choice,” said Frank Dobson then Secretary of State for Health when he appointed Mike Rawlins as the first chairman of the National Institute […]
Domhnall MacAuley: The future of general practice….is private
What will happen in general practice…now that we have so many part time portfolio doctors, practices where the focus is on performance related income, increasing delegation to practice nurses and […]
Richard Smith: Nestlé—a force for good or ill?
Nestlé, one of the world’s largest food companies, sells 1.2 billion products a day. This gives it huge potential for good or ill in a world where a billion people […]
Julian Sheather: Should doctors treat violent or abusive patients?
During the years I have been talking to doctors about medical ethics, I have often heard it said that when push comes to shove, the rights dice are loaded in […]
Jonathan Rees: Scotland’s out of hours service
Most science—and I am going to include medicine here—is based on the idea that you build on the work of others. To do this meaningfully requires that you can challenge […]
Nataša Škaričić: Asim Kurjak’s appointment as dean of the faculty for health studies at the private International University, Dubrovnik
In 2006, Sir Iain Chalmers, one of the founders of the Cochrane Collaboration, accused Asim Kurjak, a former professor at the Zagreb School of Medicine, of repeated plagiarism and criticised […]
Soumyadeep Bhaumik on a national snake bite survey in India
In January when I wrote a BMJ feature titled ” Snakebite: a forgotten problem,” little did I know that just two months down the line I would be part of […]
Jeremy Sare: Drug driving limits
Very few scientists become politicians, and this is hardly surprising. A scientist will usually only present a new finding once it has been carefully researched, tested, and peer reviewed, whereas […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—18 March 2013
JAMA 13 Mar 2013 Vol 309 997 Obstructive sleep apnoea is very, very common. In the preamble to this Australian study, a third of the adult population is accused of […]