I just registered for an ORCID ID—I’m 0000-0002-4202-7813 in case you were wondering, but I still answer to Liz. I know I’ve written about ORCID before, but that was before […]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review—7 January 2012
JAMA 2 Jan 2013 Vol 309 41 There was an issue of JAMA that appeared on December 26th, but it contained nothing really worth disturbing your Christmastide slumbers. The New […]
Farah Kidy on volunteering in India with the Institute of Rural Health Studies
After years of planning and plotting, I was finally getting ready to head off to India. This was going to be a voyage of discovery; I was going to explore […]
Shalini: A 100 million lives, up in smoke
So it seems that the apocalypse didn’t occur and the world hasn’t come to an end. 2012 is not the end of existence as we know it—the Mayans were wrong. […]
Richard Smith: Multiplicity: the power of the many, or what we can learn from Barcelona FC
Last month some 500 of us gathered in Bologna to remember Alessandro Liberati, founder of the Italian Cochrane Centre, a great thinker about health, and a personal friend to most […]
Richard Smith: Six memos on the future of healthcare
How many of us can expect a year after we die to have some 500 people attend a meeting to celebrate our life, discuss our work, and think about the […]
Krishna Chinthapalli on the questions around gun control in the US
It is the 13th leading cause of death, between liver cirrhosis and renal failure. There are more and more frequent outbreaks—a record seven in 2012 with over 140 deaths. The […]
Suchita Shah: Why we should be up in arms about gun control
“No single law—no set of laws can eliminate evil from the world, or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society. But that can’t be an […]
Geoffrey Roberts on using Lifebox pulse oximeters in Zambia
My wife and I arrived in Zambia in August 2012 for a six month placement as surgical registrars in a busy rural hospital in the Eastern Province. This was my […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—27 December 2012
JAMA 19 Dec 2012 Vol 308 2469 Most healthy people don’t take aspirin, so if you look at a long-term study of aspirin in relation to some clinical event, such […]