During the last two decades, many doctor’s attitudes towards alternative medicine have become more liberal. The general attitude seems to be: “I don’t care how it works, as long as […]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review – 2 April 2012
JAMA 28 Mar 2012 Vol 307 1257 Medical conferences exist to affirm everything that hinders the progress of medicine as a compassionate and honest enterprise. They are a showcase for […]
Susannah Baron: On education and economics
There are many differences between healthcare and medical education in Tanzania and in the UK, but the concept I find hardest to understand is “attendance or sitting allowance.” This allowance […]
Andrew Moscrop: Leishmaniasis in Pakistan
Dust has blown up around the Kuchlak health centre near Quetta. A gritty wind that hurts the eyes, matts the hair, and coarsens the teeth. Dust clouds have utterly concealed […]
David Pencheon: Death by consumption—again
Tuberculosis used to be (and sometimes still is) the great scourge, causing death and disease on a global scale and changing the course of human history over millennium. It is […]
Richard Smith: Supporting high quality children’s heart care in China
In 2007 I arrived in Beijing at the start of a philanthropic exercise, and as I was driven into the city and stared at the modern buildings I thought: “Why […]
Lisa Hallgarten: Does midwifery have to be privatised to achieve continuity of care for women?
Earlier this year we received news of a social enterprise, Neighbourhood Midwives, providing midwifery services in the community in London, and a private company providing midwifery services for NHS Wirral […]
Richard Vize: Integrate
Integrating care across the NHS and social care holds the promise of giving patients a better service at the same time as cutting costs. But a study for the government […]
David Kerr: Medicine and the new media
“We’re doomed” was the familiar catch phrase of Private Fraser—the dour, Scottish ex-undertaker turned home guardsman from the popular BBC television series Dad’s Army. According to his Wikipedia page, Fraser […]
Richard Smith: Burnt or buried?
Some things divide us fundamentally. Are you male or female, gay or straight, right wing or left wing? Another fundamental division, I suggest, is whether we want to be burnt […]