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Domhnall MacAuley: Barefoot runners, Western habits, and GP records – more from ACSM
Should we abandon running shoes? Running shoes are a relatively new phenomenon – primitive man did not wear shoes when hunting in the savannah and would look in wonder at […]
Richard Smith: Surgical editor loses job through overselling semen
I’ve a collection of stories editors of medical publications coming unstuck, often in bizarre ways, but the story of Lazar Greenfield departing Surgery News and causing a whole issue to […]
Peter Davies: Is it time to scrap the primary-secondary care divide?
Suppose a pathologist was to say, “Because I am not a GP I do not belong here.” Or a GP was to say, “Because I am not a cardio-thoracic surgeon […]
Yasir Hameed: Yemeni doctors send their plea from the besieged city of Taiz
The health situation in the Yemeni city of Taiz is dire. The people there are suffering as a result of a brutal military offensive and siege that is cutting the […]
Sarah Welsh: Academic shortage threatens medical education and research
The pressures upon medical academia mean that our medical education and research is under great threat. This is down to the new Health and Social Care Bill, changes to university […]
Tiago Villanueva: Critical appraisal of medical schools around the world
Apart from universities as a whole, the recently released QS World University Rankings also include a list of their selection of the top 200 medical and life sciences schools in […]
Andrew Burd on the globalisation of medical education
I have just returned from Shantou in Southern China where I was attending an international conference on medical education. The conference was hosted by Shantou University and was attended by […]
Richard Smith: A thousand year old village in China
My first inkling that this wasn’t going to be a routine village visit was when I noticed that our coach had a police escort. Then when we arrived at the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 6 June 2011
JAMA 1 June 2011 Vol 305 2184 Diabetes is a state of increased risk for many things, including fractures. The most striking thing I learnt from this study is that […]