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Liz Wager warms to qualitative research
I’m just back from running a course in Kenya and, as usual, it was an eye-opening experience – but perhaps not in the way you might expect. I’ll admit that, […]
Julian Sheather: Neither playing God nor worshipping Her
And so scientists have succeeded in creating life in a test-tube. Hey ho. Another day, another biotech Rubicon behind us. But before we finally succumb to miracle fatigue it might […]
Emily Spry: Being pestered is part of being a foreigner in Freetown
Two young boys once helped me when my bicycle tyre was ripped right open by a bit of metal in the road. I spent an hour or so sitting with […]
Paul McMaster: Everythin’s gonna be all right in Haiti?
We arrive in Haiti during the second night after the earthquake, and the scenes of destruction and devastation are overwhelming. We are silent as we went our way through the […]
Louise Warburton: It seemed a small request
It seemed a small request; please would I phone a patient who had recently been diagnosed with breast cancer and had been thinking of breast reconstruction. I had made myself […]
Mike Clarke: COMET features on International Clinical Trials Day
May 20 2010 was International Clinical Trials Day, a celebration of the clinical trial as a means of improving health and wellbeing. This was the sixth such day and it […]
Martin McShane: Shared Care
Over the last year NHS Lincolnshire has instituted a clinical cabinet, a meeting where professionals from across the health and social care system meet to grapple with an important theme […]
Birte Twisselmann: Web publishing – less is more
Stanford University’s HighWire Press, webhosts to the BMJ and some 1400 other scholarly journals, convened its spring meeting in Palo Alto, California, on 7-8 June 2010 in warm, sunny weather […]
Julian Sheather: Why am I frightened of doctors?
Reader I am not a shrinking violet, not a wuss or a whimp. When friends seek to describe me, pusillanimous is not the first adjective they choose. For all its […]