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Martin McShane: Substantially amend
“If you feel confused you probably know what is going on.” Out in PCT land it is fascinating to watch and listen to all the noise and thunder in the […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Middle aged man
Roddy Doyle nailed it. The unspoken aimlessness of middle aged man. His collection of short stories, “Bullfighting,” was frightening in its ordinariness, the drifting banality of a forgotten tribe. What […]
David Kerr: T(w)eaching – using Twitter to teach patients
In the UK, we usually do it in groups – that is teaching patients with diabetes and other chronic disease how to self manage their condition. For example, a group […]
Sarah Walpole: It only takes health professionals to do nothing for bad things to happen
The key strategic challenges facing health services across the globe are to meet changing needs and expectations, improve quality of care, and work within financial, resource related, and environmental limits. […]
Fiona Pathiraja: Because we’re worth it
I’ve always thought of myself as a feminist and have never consciously made career decisions based on my gender. However, male medical colleagues often comment that my Jackie O-inspired work […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 9 May 2011
JAMA 4 May 2011 Vol 305 1769 When I first started writing comments on the medical journals in 1998, coronary artery bypass surgery had become the commonest major operation in […]
Research highlights – 6 May 2011
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research […]
Siddhartha Yadav: Diagnosing and treating the “Nepalese” microbes
A large portion of my work as a doctor in Nepal is to treat infections. Even in chronic conditions – COPD, diabetes, malignancy – I find that infectious micro-organisms take the […]
Daniel Palazuelos on community health workers
Consider this proposal to address firefighting disparities: “The problem of fires in resource poor areas is growing. Even though we’ve had the tools to control fire for years—namely water, buckets, and […]