JAMA 22-29 Aug 2012 Vol 308 777 A new stent from Switzerland! Don’t all leave the room at once. Sit down and make yourselves COMFORTABLE while I tell you the […]
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Domhnall MacAuley: Santa Claus and Lance Armstrong
Santa Claus and Lance Armstrong. From the moment you stop believing—it’s never quite the same. After ten years of outrunning his accusers, Armstrong says he is not going to fight […]
Tiago Villanueva: Does it matter where you do your medical training?
The standards of both undergraduate and postgraduate medical training vary widely around the world. This partly explains why the medical profession is so fiercely regulated when a doctor wishes to […]
James Drife: Doctors on the Fringe
This week we are in Edinburgh, performing on the Festival Fringe. We’ve been doing this intermittently since 1974, and in fact the personal view that I wrote about our first […]
Steve Yentis: Infamous names in anaesthesia—part two
My list of anaesthetists who are famous for the wrong reasons currently has two categories and four entries. The first category, “Anaesthetists convicted of killing Michael Jackson,” would have just […]
Tessa Richards: Personal information empowers and its shift to the people makes sense
Given that health is our most precious commodity it is odd that many of us know so little about it. Part of the reason is that we are not used […]
Kailash Chand on Tony Nicklinson and the right to die
As Tony Nicklinson’s case illustrates, there is clearly a desire among some patients with debilitating and incurable diseases, to end their suffering with the support of their doctor and relatives. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—20 August 2012
JAMA 15 Aug 2012 Vol 308 681 From time to time, most of the medical journals are seized with a worthy impulse to discuss violence. One of its commonest and […]
Sophie Reshamwalla: Move aside Doc Martin—a day in the life of a real village doctor
I sit and type this in my lounge, with the men’s Olympic football final on the TV in the background (Mexico are 1-0 up against Brazil can you believe), and […]
Emma Rourke: Superhuman at the Wellcome Collection
Are you superhuman? Most people’s innate reaction would be to refute such a claim. “Superhuman” evokes images of superheroes, creations of human fantasy, and imagination, but what if we took […]