In his BMJ blog last week, David Kerr asked whether Twitter would ever be used for healthcare. As soon as this blog was posted, the Twitter healthcare community was buzzing […]
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Tiago Villanueva: National health services are a great thing, particularly in times of financial austerity
Looking at my country’s national health service which is chiefly funded by taxes, from a user’s rather than from a provider’s perspective (or better, from a passive rather than from an […]
Peter Lapsley: Compassion in dying
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Domhnall MacAuley: Palliative care
Dying is not much fun. As a GP I have seen a lot of it. Its not the very end bit that bothers me. The last breath is, paradoxically, often […]
Jeremy Sare on drug sentencing
Most drug users are not addicted. Most suppliers of drugs are not dealers. These central truths about patterns of drug use in Britain are incompatible with the policies adopted by […]
Martin McShane: Evolution or revolution?
The announcement of a pause in the progress of the legislative process has been serendipitous for me. It coincided with a series of events where I could listen to a […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 18 April 2011
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Sarah Welsh: How much exercise is too much?
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Kailash Chand: No confidence in Andrew Lansley
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David Kerr: Twitterology
The NHS is in love with the airline industry. The idea of checklists before operations has really caught on, and increasingly ex-airline people are being placed in advisory roles for […]