The consultation document published today by the Commission on Dignity in Care for Older People has powerful messages about the role of hospital doctors and the training of doctors and […]
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John Gabbay: “We’ll never re-elect you if you wreck our NHS”
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Peter Bailey: Hot frogs jump
Biology A level classes in the 1970s often involved frogs making the ultimate sacrifice for the benefit of their dissector’s knowledge of what lies beneath the amphibian skin. As far […]
Richard Smith: Talking death with a CCG
Recently I had the privilege of talking with the members of an emerging clinical commissioning group (CCG). (For those who don’t know, CCGs are groups of GPs who will have […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 27 February 2012
JAMA 22 Feb 2012 Vol 307 813 When an Italian team of physicists reported that they had detected neutrinos travelling faster than light, the televisual physicist Jim Al-Khalili promised to […]
Marge Berer: In defence of abortion on a woman’s request, including on grounds of fetal sex
Ach, what a furore. The Daily Telegraph is in its element and having a ball printing nasty allegations about doctors doing abortions illegally on grounds of sex selection. Let’s look […]
Andrew Jones: Transforming patient care using technology
A search on one fantastic piece of technology, the internet, suggests that technology can be defined as “…the application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives.” When I think […]
Peter Bailey: poisoned chalice
It is now just over three weeks since I saw my last patient, hung up my stethoscope, and retired. A GP with time to think! Just imagine what might happen. […]
Enrico Coiera: Science as Haiku (Or how to get a PhD in 20 tweets)
It’s easy to dismiss Twitter, a network that links people using messages of 140 characters or less, but it fills a genuine social gap. If Facebook is an archipelago of […]