News of the Large Hadron Collider, which is due to smash its first atoms on 10 September, makes me wonder not about subatomic particles but about adjectives. When I teach […]
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Vidhya Alakeson on the US election
After the Democratic Convention last week, when healthcare featured in almost every major speech, I had been waiting all week to see whether the Republicans would talk about it at […]
Julian Sheather: Free NHS care for asylum seekers
It runs like an uneasy theme in the ethics of health care provision. How do we respond to the genuine health needs of individuals who do not have legal rights […]
Jessie Colquhoun: Standfirsts and softball
Last Tuesday I would have been starting my first term as a fourth year medical student. Instead I started my 11th week in the BMJ office as Student BMJ editor. The position is a year […]
David Payne: The feelgood factor
What makes you feel good? Richard Smith asks Anna Donald in his last response to her blog about living with a life-threatening illness as a doctor. Anna will no doubt […]
Anna Donald: Who are we?
I’m in the middle of an exciting and depressing thought. Basically, that with the demise in the West of theology we have no valid way of talking coherently about existence. […]
Anna Donald: What’s maddening about living with advanced cancer
It’s time to tackle Richard Smith’s third request for information about living with advanced cancer: what’s maddening about it? Hmmm … where to start? There are so many maddening things […]
Aliya Razaaq: Blaming it on the stereotype
The recent research study published in the BMJ entitled “Ethnic stereotypes and the underachievement of UK medical students from ethnic minorities: qualitative study” discussed the underperformance of (presumably South) Asian […]
Juliet Walker: Free v. Open Access
Recent changes to the BMJ’s copyright licence and the information it includes in research articles means that they can be formally listed as open access articles in PubMed Central and […]
Helen Barratt: Talking the talk
I wasn’t a bit surprised to read the report cited in this week’s journal about the use of jargon in public health. In fact, I rather wish I’d come up […]